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On the recordApril 29, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 2, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 178 Leg.] YEAS--89 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Tuberville Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--2 Cruz Lee NOT VOTING--9 Cantwell Cardin Cramer Moran Paul Rounds Shelby Tillis Van Hollen The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Rosen). On this vote, the yeas are 89, the nays are 2. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the bill is passed, as amended. The bill (S. 914), as amended, was passed, as follows S.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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