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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 46, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 65 Leg.] YEAS--46 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--48 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--6 Feinstein Inhofe Kennedy Lujan Paul Warnock The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 46, the nays are 48. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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