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On the recordAugust 4, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The result was announced--yeas 96, nays 2, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 301 Leg.] YEAS--96 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--2 Cornyn Whitehouse NOT VOTING--2 Graham Inhofe The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). On this vote, the yeas are 96, the nays are 2. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to. The amendment (No. 2464) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 4 minutes of debate, equally divided, prior to the vote in relation to Lankford amendment No. 2233.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota
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govinfo.gov
Aug 4, 2021

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