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On the recordMay 5, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 231 Leg.] YEAS--51 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kaine Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Paul Ricketts Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Wicker NAYS--43 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Cruz Fetterman Murkowski Murray Risch Young The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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