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On the recordJanuary 15, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 46, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 4 Leg.] YEAS--46 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse NAYS--49 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall McConnell McCormick Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--4 Hagerty Justice Lummis Wyden The amendment (No. 23) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Order of Business
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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