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On the recordJanuary 30, 2025
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 62, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 27 Ex.] YEAS--62 Banks Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Gallego Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy King Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Wicker Young NAYS--35 Alsobrooks Baldwin Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim Klobuchar Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Booker Fetterman Ossoff The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Moody). The yeas are 62, the nays are 55. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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