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On the recordApril 19, 2023
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 45, nays 54, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 89 Leg.] YEAS--45 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NAYS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Feinstein The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). On this vote, the yeas are 45, the nays are 54. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No. 72) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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