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On the recordOctober 27, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, and nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 440 Ex.] YEAS--51 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--45 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--4 Cruz Feinstein Rounds Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51 and the nays are 45. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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