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On the recordMay 4, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby). The result was announced--yeas 6, nays 87, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 153 Leg.] YEAS--6 Baldwin Booker Markey Merkley Sanders Warren NAYS--87 Barrasso Blackburn Blumenthal Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--7 Bennet Blunt Coons Heinrich Lujan Menendez Shelby The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Montana. Motion to Instruct
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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