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On the recordFebruary 1, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 20 Ex.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--38 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--7 Blunt Hoeven Lujan Manchin Romney Toomey Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 55, the nays are 38. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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