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On the recordJune 21, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay'', and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 242 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine 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 Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--35 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Capito Cassidy Cotton Crapo Cruz Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Portman Romney Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--13 Booker Braun Brown Casey Cramer Daines Hoeven Inhofe Paul Risch Rounds Sasse Young…
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John Thune
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