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On the recordFebruary 25, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 67 Ex.] YEAS--66 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--32 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Graham Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Risch Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--2 Inhofe Sulliva The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 66, the nays are 32. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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