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On the recordMay 28, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 218 Leg.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--35 Barrasso Boozman Capito Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--11 Blackburn Blunt Braun Burr Inhofe Murray Risch Rounds Shelby Sinema Toome The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 35.…
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John Thune
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