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On the recordApril 4, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 50, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 185 Leg.] YEAS--49 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Slotkin Smith Sullivan Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--50 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Murray The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays 50. Three-fifths of the Senators being duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. The motion was rejected The PRESIDING OFFICER. The point of order is sustained, and the amendment falls. The Senator from Wisconsin. Amendment No. 1693 to Amendment No. 1717
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 4, 2025

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