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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are…

On the recordApril 29, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 216 Ex.] YEAS--59 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gallego Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kaine Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Wicker Young NAYS--39 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schiff Schumer Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warnock Warren Welch Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Sanders Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 59, the nays are 39. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 29, 2025

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