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On the recordMay 25, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 208 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--40 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Risch Romney Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Blunt Cornyn Cruz Merkley Murkowski Van Hollen The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 40. The motion is agreed to. The majority leader.
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John Thune
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