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On the recordFebruary 22, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 75, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 60 Ex.] YEAS--75 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--20 Barrasso Braun Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Lankford Lummis Marshall Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Tuberville NOT VOTING--5 Blackburn Moran Murray Paul Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 75, and the nays are 20. The motion is agreed to. The majority leader.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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