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On the recordAugust 4, 2022
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn). The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 283 Leg.] YEAS--50 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--47 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Menendez Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Cornyn Leahy Merkley The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 55) was passed, as follows: S.J. Res. 55 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Council on Environmental Quality relating to ``National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations Revisions'' (87 Fed. Reg. 23453 (April 20, 2022)), and such rule shall have no force or effect. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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