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On the recordMarch 13, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 120 Ex.] YEAS--57 Alsobrooks Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Gallego Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Peters Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Slotkin Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--41 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Reed Rosen Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Smith Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Duckworth Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sheehy). On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are 41. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Missouri.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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