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On the recordMay 3, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 61, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 145 Ex.] YEAS--61 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Inhofe Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--35 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Bennet Shaheen Shelby Tuberville The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Sinema). On this vote, the yeas are 61, the nays are 35. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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