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On the recordJuly 26, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 278 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Brown Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Cassidy Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith 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--6 Booker Cardin Crapo Inhofe Murray Rounds The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 40. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Rhode Island. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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