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On the recordNovember 21, 2024
I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 301 Ex.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Helmy Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey 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--49 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham 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 Manchin The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 49. The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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