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On the recordApril 29, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Welch) and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 13, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 220 Ex.] YEAS--84 Baldwin Banks Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Booker Boozman Britt Budd Cantwell Capito Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gallego Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kaine Kelly Kennedy Kim King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Schiff Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Slotkin Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Warnock Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--13 Alsobrooks Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Hirono Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Schatz Schumer Smith Van Hollen Warren NOT VOTING--3 Sanders Welch Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 13. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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