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On the recordDecember 1, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 25, nays 70, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 370 Leg.] YEAS--25 Blackburn Braun Capito Collins Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Graham Hagerty Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lee Paul Rounds Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville NAYS--70 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--5 Burr Hyde-Smith Murphy Risch Warnock The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No. 6503) was rejected. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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