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On the recordMay 20, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 46, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 199 Leg.] YEAS--46 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin McConnell Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--48 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 Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Cassidy Graham Markey Marshall Moran Murkowski The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). On this vote, the yeas are 46, the nays are 48. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No. 1518) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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