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On the recordFebruary 2, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 30 Ex.] YEAS--68 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--26 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cotton Cruz Ernst Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Cornyn Cramer Daines Hoeven Lujan Sanders The PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 26. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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