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On the recordFebruary 2, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Danes), and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 29 Ex.] YEAS--66 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--28 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cruz Ernst Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Toomey Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Cornyn Cramer Daines Hoeven Lujan Sanders The PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 66, the nays are 28. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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