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On the recordMay 25, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Arkansas (Ms. Murkowski). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 204 Ex.] YEAS--51 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Warner Warnock Warren Wyden NAYS--43 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cotton Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--6 Cornyn Cruz Merkley Murkowski Van Hollen Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 43. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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