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On the recordAugust 6, 2022
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby). The result was announced--yeas 5, nays 94, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 310 Leg.] YEAS--5 Baldwin Collins Ossoff Sanders Warnock NAYS--94 Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Padilla Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--1 Shelby The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). On this vote, the yeas are 5, the nays are 94. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The point of order is sustained and the amendment falls. The majority whip. Order of Business
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John Thune
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