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On the recordMay 27, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby). The result was announced--yeas 84, nays 7, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 217 Leg.] YEAS--84 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--7 Johnson Kennedy Lankford Paul Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Toomey NOT VOTING--9 Blackburn Blunt Braun Burr Cotton Inhofe Rounds Shelby Sinema The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). A quorum is present. The Senator from Washington. Amendment Nos.…
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John Thune
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