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On the recordAugust 2, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 278 Leg.] YEAS--47 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--48 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Booker Burr Cornyn Leahy Merkley The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). On this vote, the yeas are 47, the nays are 48. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this motion to concur with the amendment, the motion is not agreed to. The motion was rejected. Motion to Concur with Amendment No. 5185
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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