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On the recordFebruary 13, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego) and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 55 Ex.] YEAS--51 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Justice Kelly Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--43 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Reed Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Boozman Gallego Johnson Marshall Paul Peters The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Budd). On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 43. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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