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On the recordFebruary 24, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 88 Ex.] YEAS--66 Banks Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gallego Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kelly Kennedy Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Wicker NAYS--28 Alsobrooks Baldwin Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Duckworth Gillibrand Hirono Kim King Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warren Welch Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Cramer Graham Kaine Warnock Whitehouse Young The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ricketts). The yeas are 66, the nays are 28. The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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