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On the recordMay 27, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt). (Mr. KING assumed the Chair.) (Mr. VAN HOLLEN assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 214 Leg.] YEAS--68 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--30 Barrasso Boozman Braun Burr Cotton Cramer Cruz Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Rubio Sanders Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville NOT VOTING--2 Blackburn Blunt The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 30. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington. Order Of Business
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John Thune
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