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On the recordMay 24, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Murkowski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Boozman), I would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from North Carolina, (Mr. Tillis, would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 197 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--39 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Braun Capito Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--9 Boozman Cornyn Cruz Merkley Murkowski Rubio Tillis Toomey Van Hollen The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 39. The motion is agreed to.…
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