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On the recordFebruary 15, 2023
I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 18 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--47 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Casey (Mr. MERKLEY assumed the Chair.) (Mr. WELCH assumed the Chair.) (Mr. HICKENLOOPER assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). The yeas are 52, the nays are 47. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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