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On the recordMay 4, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 155 Leg.] YEAS--62 Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kelly Kennedy King Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Peters Portman Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--33 Baldwin Brown Cantwell Carper Casey Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Reed Sanders Schatz Shaheen Smith Stabenow Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--5 Bennet Blunt Menendez Risch Shelby The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 62, the nays are 33. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this motion, the motion is agreed to. The majority leader.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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