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On the recordMay 25, 2021
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy). The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 204 Leg.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--49 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Kennedy The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Markey). On this vote, the yeas are 50, and the nays are 49. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The amendment (No. 1975) was rejected. Vote on Amendment No. 1565 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question now appears on the Crapo amendment, No. 1565.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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