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On the recordMay 26, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 213 Leg.] YEAS--67 Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Graham Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Lujan Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--30 Baldwin Booker Braun Brown Cardin Carper Cassidy Crapo Duckworth Feinstein Grassley Hawley Hirono Johnson Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Lummis Markey Menendez Merkley Paul Reed Risch Sanders Smith Toomey Tuberville Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Blackburn Manchin Tilli The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 67, the nays are 30. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to. The amendment (No. 2023) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Thune
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