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On the recordAugust 3, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The result was announced--yeas 20, nays 78, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 295 Leg.] YEAS--20 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cornyn Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Grassley Hagerty Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Paul Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) NAYS--78 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--2 Graham Inhofe The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 20, the nays are 78. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No. 2255) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Mississippi. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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