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On the recordAugust 3, 2022
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) would have voted ``yea.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 95, nays 1, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 282 Ex.] YEAS--95 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--1 Hawley PRESENT--1 Paul NOT VOTING--3 Cornyn Leahy Merkley The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). On this vote, the yeas are 95, the nays are 1, and one Senator responded present. Two-thirds of the Senators present, a quorum being present, having voted in the affirmative, the resolution of ratification is agreed to. The resolution of ratification agreed to is as follows: Resolved, (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein). SECTION 1.…
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John Thune
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