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On the recordNovember 15, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley) would have voted ``Nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 466 Leg.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--38 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Sasse Scott (FL) Shelby Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--7 Cantwell Hawley Inhofe Rubio Stabenow Sullivan Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 55, the nays are 38. The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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