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On the recordAugust 2, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 7, nays 90, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 277 Leg.] YEAS--7 Blackburn Braun Hagerty Johnson Lee Marshall Paul NAYS--90 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--3 Burr Cornyn Leahy The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Markey). On this vote, the yeas are 7, the nays are 90. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this motion to concur with amendment, the motion is rejected. The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question occurs on the Toomey motion to concur with amendment No. 5186. The Senator from Pennsylvania.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota
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Aug 2, 2022

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