I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith) is necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 240 Leg.] YEAS--48 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moreno Mullin Murkowski Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Sullivan Tillis Tuberville Young NAYS--49 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Slotkin Thune Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Moran Smith Wicker The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
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