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On the recordDecember 15, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The result was announced--yeas 35, nays 56, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 398 Leg.] YEAS--35 Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--56 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Inhofe Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--9 Barrasso Blunt Burr Cruz Hagerty Kelly Moran Scott (SC) Tillis The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to refer and the motion to concur with amendments are withdrawn. There are now 2 minutes equally divided prior to the vote on the motion to concur.…
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