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On the recordJuly 30, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 288 Leg.] YEAS--66 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--28 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cornyn Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Moran Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Inhofe Marshall Paul Risch Rounds Rubio The motion was agreed to ____________________
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John Thune
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