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On the recordJuly 20, 2022
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy). The result was announced--yeas 34, nays 63, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 265 Leg.] YEAS--34 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Risch Romney Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Young NAYS--63 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Kennedy Leahy Whitehouse The motion was rejected. (Mr. OSSOFF assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). The majority leader. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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