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On the recordDecember 6, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) would have voted ``yea.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 64, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 478 Ex.] YEAS--64 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Inhofe Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--27 Barrasso Boozman Braun Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Risch Rounds Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Tillis NOT VOTING--9 Blackburn Cassidy Hagerty Merkley Sasse Sinema Toomey Tuberville Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 64, the nays are 27. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Ohio.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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