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On the recordApril 17, 2023
I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) are necessarily absent. Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young) would have voted ``yea.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 61, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No.…
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