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On the recordDecember 7, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Lankford). [Rollcall Vote No. 484 Leg.] YEAS--30 Baldwin Booker Brown Cantwell Casey Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine Lee Lujan Markey Merkley Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warnock Warren Wyden NAYS--67 Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Feinstein Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hickenlooper Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Cotton Lankford Leahy The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). The Senator from Washington. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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