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On the recordFebruary 28, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 74, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 66 Leg.] YEAS--74 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--20 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Cornyn Crapo Cruz Hagerty Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Toomey Tuberville NOT VOTING--6 Feinstein Inhofe Kennedy Lujan Paul Warnock The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). On this vote, the yeas are 74, the nays are 20. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
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