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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Slotkin) are necessarily…

On the recordMay 1, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Slotkin) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 230 Ex.] YEAS--50 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--45 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 Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Smith Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Britt Graham Moran Sanders Slotkin The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 1, 2025

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