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On the recordJuly 26, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 64, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 268 Leg.] YEAS--64 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Daines Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--32 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Ernst Fischer Grassley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Risch Rounds Rubio Sanders Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville NOT VOTING--4 Hawley Leahy Manchin Murkowski (Mr. PADILLA assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). On this vote, the yeas are 64, the nays are 32. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota
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Jul 26, 2022

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