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On the recordDecember 7, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 379 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--6 Cruz Hickenlooper Johnson Kaine Warner Warnock The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Rosen). On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 42. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
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