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On the recordFebruary 3, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 34 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--39 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Risch Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Young NOT VOTING--7 Burr Cramer Daines Gillibrand Graham Hoeven Lujan The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). On this vote the yeas are 54, and the nays are 39. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
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