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On the recordApril 19, 2023
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alabama (Mrs. Britt) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton). The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 91 Leg.] YEAS--47 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn 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 Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NAYS--49 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 Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Britt Cotton Feinstein Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 47, the nays are 49. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No. 81) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Indiana. Unanimous Consent Request--S. 1101
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 19, 2023

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