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On the recordAugust 2, 2022
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) would have voted ``yea''. The result was announced--yeas 86, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 280 Leg.] YEAS--86 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--11 Crapo Lankford Lee Lummis Paul Risch Romney Shelby Tillis Toomey Tuberville NOT VOTING--3 Cornyn Leahy Merkley The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). On this vote, the yeas are 86, the nays are 11. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this motion to concur, the motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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