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On the recordJune 13, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 78, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 225 Leg.] YEAS--78 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--17 Blackburn Burr Crapo Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell Paul Portman Risch Romney Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Tillis Toomey Tuberville NOT VOTING--5 Cruz Kennedy Sasse Warnock Wicker (Mr. SCHATZ assumed the Chair.) (Ms. BALDWIN assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 78, the nays are 17. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Arizona. ____________________
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John Thune
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