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On the recordJanuary 21, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote? The result was announced--yeas 69, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 4 Leg.] YEAS--69 Bennet Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coons Cornyn Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lujan Manchin McConnell Menendez Murkowski Murphy Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Thune Tuberville Warner Warnock Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--27 Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Collins Cortez Masto Cotton Duckworth Gillibrand Hawley Lee Lummis Markey Marshall Merkley Murray Rosen Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Tester Toomey Van Hollen Warren Wyden Young NOT VOTING--4 Burr Hyde-Smith Moran Tilli The PRESIDING OFFICER. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the bill is passed.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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