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On the recordSeptember 6, 2023
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 215 Ex.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--49 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Booker (Ms. CORTEZ MASTO assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Rosen). The motion is agreed to. On this vote, the yeas are 50, and the nays are 49. The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 6, 2023

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