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On the recordApril 8, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 199 Ex.] YEAS--51 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--42 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Durbin Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse NOT VOTING--7 Duckworth Hassan McCormick Murphy Paul Tillis Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 42, and the motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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