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On the recordAugust 4, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The result was announced--yeas 42, nays 55, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 304 Leg.] YEAS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--55 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons 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 Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Graham Inhofe Rounds The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). On this vote, the yeas are 42, the nays are 55. =========================== NOTE =========================== On page S5815, August 4, 2021, third column, the following appears: The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 45. The online Record has been corrected to read: The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). On this vote, the yeas are 42, the nays are 55.…
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John Thune
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