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On the recordApril 28, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Welch), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 64, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 214 Leg.] YEAS--64 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Booker Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Duckworth Ernst Fischer Gallego Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Kim King 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 Slotkin Sullivan Thune Tuberville Warner Wicker Young NAYS--27 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Cantwell Cortez Masto Durbin Gillibrand Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kelly Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Ossoff Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Smith Van Hollen Warnock Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--9 Cramer Fetterman Graham Kaine Murray Padilla Tillis Welch Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ricketts). On this vote, the yeas are 64, the nays are 27. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 28, 2025

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