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On the recordDecember 17, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst), the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 506 Ex.] YEAS--49 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Padilla Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--31 Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cornyn Crapo Cruz Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--20 Burr Cotton Cramer Daines Ernst Feinstein Fischer Inhofe Johnson Lummis…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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