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On the recordJuly 27, 2022
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 272 Leg.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Rubio Sanders Schatz Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Braun Burr Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Sasse Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Leahy Manchin Murkowski (Ms. SMITH assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). On this vote, the yeas are 55, the nays are 42. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. Motion to Reconsider
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John Thune
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