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On the recordNovember 29, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 45, nays 51, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 473 Leg.] YEAS--45 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Menendez Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Whitehouse NAYS--51 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Markey Marshall McConnell Merkley Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sanders Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Warren Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--4 Blunt Cassidy Cruz Sasse The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 45, the nays are 51. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion was not agreed to. The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Motion to Reconsider
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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