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On the recordApril 29, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schatz). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 14, nays 81, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 176 Leg.] YEAS--14 Burr Cornyn Crapo Cruz Kelly Lee Ossoff Risch Romney Rubio Scott (FL) Sinema Tillis Warnock NAYS--81 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--5 Cantwell Cramer Paul Rounds Shelby The amendment (No. 1471), as modified, was rejected Amendment No. 1461 to Amendment No. 1460 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to the vote in relation to amendment No. 1461. Who yields time?
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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