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On the recordAugust 6, 2022
pursuant to section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act and relevant budget resolutions, I move to waive, and I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 311 Leg.] YEAS--54 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Ossoff Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Warnock Wicker Young NAYS--46 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 46. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The point of order is sustained, and the amendment falls.…
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Ted Cruz
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