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On the recordMay 25, 2021
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy). The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 205 Leg.] YEAS--53 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kelly King Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--46 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Kennedy The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 46. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The amendment (No. 1565) was rejected. Amendment No. 2003 to Amendment No. 1502 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate, equally divided, prior to the vote in relation to the Paul amendment No. 2003. The Senator from Kentucky.
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John Thune
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