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On the recordJuly 26, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 269 Leg.] YEAS--63 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--32 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Risch Rounds Rubio Sanders Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Toomey Tuberville NOT VOTING--5 Duckworth Hawley Leahy Manchin Murkowski The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Markey). On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 32. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to and the point of order falls. The Senator from Michigan. Tribute to General Joseph M. Martin
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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