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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 ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 279 Leg.] YEAS--48 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Collins Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--47 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Booker Burr Cornyn Leahy Merkley The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 47. 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. Amendments Withdrawn Under the previous order, the motion to refer and the amendments pending thereto and the motion to concur with amendment No.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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