[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 75 (Thursday, May 5, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S2357]
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                            VOTE EXPLANATION

  Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, if there had been a recorded rollcall vote 
on the motion to instruct from Senator Menendez that moves that the 
managers on the part of the Senate at the conference on the disagreeing 
votes of the two Houses on the Senate amendment to the bill H.R. 4521 
be instructed to contain provisions in section 73003 of the Senate 
amendment related to the establishment of an inspector general for the 
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, I would have voted nay.
  If there had been a recorded rollcall vote on the motion to instruct 
from Senator Lujan that moves that the managers on the part of the 
Senate at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on 
the Senate amendment to the bill H.R. 4521 be instructed to insist on 
provisions supporting the work of the Department of Energy, user 
facilities of the Department of Energy, and National Laboratories, 
including work in microelectronics and across the key technology focus 
areas, supporting the Department of Energy and its national 
laboratories, I would have voted nay.

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