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On the recordMay 24, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: The Senator from Arizona (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Boozman) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 198 Ex.] YEAS--48 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--10 Boozman Cornyn Cruz Merkley Murkowski Rubio Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 42. The motion is agreed to.…
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John Thune
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