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On the recordMarch 31, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Hickenlooper), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Slotkin) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 156 Ex.] YEAS--49 Banks Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Husted Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--42 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Smith Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--9 Barrasso Capito Coons Hickenlooper Hyde-Smith Lummis Murkowski Peters Slotkin (Mr. RICKETTS assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Marshall). On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 42. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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