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On the recordApril 4, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) is necessarily absent. The result was announced---yeas 48, nays 51, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 187 Leg.] YEAS--48 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murkowski Murphy Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Slotkin Smith Sullivan Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--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 McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Murray The amendment (No. 1529) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Georgia. Amendment No. 2177 to Amendment No. 1717
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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