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On the recordJune 17, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 240 Ex.] YEAS--63 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--33 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Cassidy Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Risch Sasse Scott (FL) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Booker Cramer Moran Peter The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 33. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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