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On the recordSeptember 29, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 25, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 351 Leg.] YEAS--72 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--25 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lummis Marshall Paul Risch Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Thune Toomey Tuberville NOT VOTING--3 Lee Portman Rubio (Mr. VAN HOLLEN assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). On this vote, the yeas are 72, the nays are 25. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the bill, as amended, is passed. The bill (H.R. 6833), as amended, was passed.
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John Thune
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