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On the recordMay 17, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 86, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 192 Leg.] YEAS--86 Baldwin Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--11 Barrasso Cotton Crapo Johnson Lee Lummis Paul Risch Scott (FL) Shelby Tuberville NOT VOTING--3 Klobuchar Toomey Wicke The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 86, the nays are 11. Three-fifths of Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Rhode Island. ____________________
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John Thune
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