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On the recordDecember 14, 2021
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 86, nays 13, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 496 Ex.] YEAS--86 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lujan Manchin Marshall McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Peters Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--13 Braun Cardin Gillibrand Lee Markey Merkley Padilla Paul Portman Sanders Toomey Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Lummis The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). On this vote, the yeas are 86, the nays are 13. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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