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On the recordMay 2, 2023
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 106 Ex.] YEAS--51 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--48 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Feinstein The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 48. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 2, 2023

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