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On the recordJanuary 29, 2025
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 78, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 25 Ex.] YEAS--78 Alsobrooks Baldwin Banks Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Cantwell Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gallego Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Padilla Paul Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Slotkin Smith Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Warnock Welch Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--20 Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Coons Duckworth Durbin Hirono Kim Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Booker Ossoff The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). On this vote, the yeas are 78, the nays are 20. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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