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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), and the Senator…

On the recordSeptember 12, 2023
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), and the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 85, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 227 Ex.] YEAS--85 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Manchin McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Paul Peters Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--12 Braun Budd Cruz Ernst Hawley Lummis Marshall Ricketts Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Tuberville NOT VOTING--3 Duckworth Markey Padilla (Ms. KLOBUCHAR assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Welch). On this vote, the yeas are 85, the nays are 12. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 12, 2023

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