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On the recordFebruary 4, 2021
pursuant to section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and the waiver provisions of the applicable budget resolutions, I move to waive all the applicable sections of the act and the applicable budget resolutions for purposes of amendment 811, 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 legislative clerk called the roll. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 40, nays 60, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 41 Leg.] YEAS--40 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Scott (FL) Shelby Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--60 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyde The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 40, the nays are 60.…
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