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On the recordSeptember 12, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young) would have voted ``nay''. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 45, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 332 Ex.] YEAS--45 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--44 Blackburn Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--11 Barrasso Blunt Braun Brown Hassan Menendez Peters Risch Stabenow Toomey Young The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). On this vote, the yeas are 45, the nays are 44. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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