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On the recordAugust 1, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 275 Ex.] YEAS--56 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--33 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Risch Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--11 Blunt Burr Cornyn Durbin Hawley Kennedy Leahy Merkley Moran Sasse Shelby The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 56 and the nays are 33. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith).…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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