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On the recordAugust 5, 2021
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 308 Leg.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--49 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Graham (Mr. PADILLA assumed the chair.) (Ms. BALDWIN assumed the chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). On this vote the yeas are 50, the nays are 49. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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