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On the recordJanuary 17, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 61, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 5 Leg.] YEAS--61 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Gallego Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kelly Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McCormick Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Ossoff Paul Peters Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Slotkin Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Wicker Young NAYS--35 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Padilla Reed Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Smith Van Hollen Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Coons Fetterman McConnell The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 61, the nays are 35. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Texas. Student Loans
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Dick Durbin
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