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On the recordMarch 16, 2022
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 87 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--44 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--4 Blunt Leahy Sanders Shaheen The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 44. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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