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On the recordMay 4, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby). The result was announced--yeas 17, nays 78, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 156 Leg.] YEAS--17 Boozman Braun Cotton Gillibrand Hawley Hirono Johnson Klobuchar Lee Markey Murkowski Paul Rubio Sanders Scott (FL) Smith Warren NAYS--78 Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lujan Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--5 Bennet Blunt Menendez Risch Shelby The motion was rejected. Motion to Instruct The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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