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On the recordAugust 2, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The result was announced--yeas 90, nays 7, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 291 Leg.] YEAS--90 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--7 Blackburn Braun Cotton Kennedy Lee Paul Tuberville NOT VOTING--3 Booker Graham Inhofe The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 90, the nays are 7. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to. The amendment (No. 2133) was agreed to. Amendment No. 2162 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate, equally divided, prior to a vote in relation to the Thune-Tester amendment, No. 2162. The Senator from South Dakota.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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