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On the recordApril 28, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 173 Leg.] YEAS--67 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--28 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville NOT VOTING--5 Cantwell Cramer Paul Rounds Shelby The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 67, the nays are 28. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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