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On the recordMay 10, 2021
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Pennslyvania (Mr. Toomey). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 179 Ex.] YEAS--62 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--35 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Heinrich Murray Toomey The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Booker). On this vote, the yeas are 62, the nays are 35. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wyoming.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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