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On the recordAugust 10, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 51, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 327 Leg.] YEAS--47 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--51 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--2 Cramer Rounds The amendment (No. 3569) was rejected The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). The Senator from Illinois.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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