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On the recordOctober 27, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 441 Ex.] YEAS--53 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Graham Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Risch Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--5 Capito Cruz Feinstein Rounds Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). The yeas are 53, the nays are 42. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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