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On the recordAugust 4, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The result was announced--yeas 19, nays 79, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 300 Leg.] YEAS--19 Blackburn Blunt Burr Cassidy Cornyn Cramer Cruz Ernst Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kennedy Ossoff Rubio Scott (FL) Sullivan Tuberville Warnock NAYS--79 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Padilla Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--2 Graham Inhofe The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 19, the nays are 79. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, this amendment is rejected. The amendment (No. 2210) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority whip. Eviction Moratorium
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John Thune
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