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On the recordFebruary 2, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 28 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Toomey Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--37 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cotton Crapo Cruz Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Wicker Young NOT VOTING--9 Coons Cornyn Cramer Daines Hoeven Lujan Rubio Tuberville Van Hollen The PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 37. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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