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On the recordMarch 5, 2021
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan). The result was announced--yeas 93, nays 6, as follows: [Rolllcall Vote No. 109 Leg.] YEAS--93 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--6 Braun Johnson Lee Lummis Paul Tuberville NOT VOTING--1 Sullivan The amendment (No. 1391) was agreed to. PRAYER The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Pursuant to rule IV, paragraph 2, the hour of 12 noon having arrived, the Senate having been in continuous session since yesterday, the Senate will suspend for a prayer from the Senate Chaplain. The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer: Let us pray. Eternal God, who guides us through life's marathons, we praise Your powerful Name. Have compassion on us and answer our prayers. Lord, You control our destiny.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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