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On the recordApril 27, 2023
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) are necessarily absent. Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 100 Leg.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand 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 Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--45 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lummis Marshall McConnell Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--5 Braun Feinstein Lee Moran Warnock (Mr. WELCH assumed the Chair.) (Mr. KELLY assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). The yeas are 50, the nays are 45, and the motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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