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On the recordSeptember 24, 2024
I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Butler), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), and the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) are necessarily absent. Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The yeas and nays resulted --yeas 56, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 250 Ex.] YEAS--56 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Helmy Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Mullin 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--36 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Thune Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--8 Butler Cardin Coons Cotton Hyde-Smith Sullivan Tillis Vance The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). The yeas are 56, the nays are 36. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
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