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On the recordAugust 8, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The result was announced--yeas 69, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 312 Leg.] YEAS--69 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--28 Blackburn Boozman Braun Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Toomey Tuberville Young NOT VOTING--3 Barrasso Graham Rounds The amendment (No. 2137), in the nature of a substitute, as amended, was agreed to. Cloture Motion The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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