I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 238 Leg.] YEAS--50 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Young NAYS--38 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Durbin Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim King Lujan Markey Merkley Murray Ossoff Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Slotkin Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--12 Cortez Masto Duckworth Fetterman Gallego Klobuchar Lummis Murphy Padilla Risch Shaheen Smith Wicker The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 7) was passed as follows: S.J. Res.…
Dick Durbin: “I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from…”
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