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On the recordMay 3, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 147 Leg.] YEAS--55 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kelly Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Ossoff Paul Portman Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--41 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Padilla Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Bennet Shaheen Shelby Tuberville The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 39) was passed, as follows: S.J. Res. 39 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Department of Health and Human Services relating to ``Vaccine and Mask Requirements To Mitigate the Spread of COVID-19 in Head Start Programs'' (86 Fed. Reg. 68052 (November 30, 2021)), and such rule shall have no force or effect. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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