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On the recordJuly 29, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: The Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 286 Leg.] YEAS--72 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Cruz Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--26 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Fischer Hagerty Hawley Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Moran Paul Risch Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Toomey NOT VOTING--2 Marshall Rounds The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 72, the nays are 26. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to and the point of order falls. Vote on Amendment No. 2123 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the Leahy amendment, as amended. The amendment (No.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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