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On the recordMarch 14, 2025
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) and, the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 125 Ex.] YEAS--56 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fetterman Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Reed Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Slotkin Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Wicker Young NAYS--39 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Durbin Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Smith Van Hollen Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Booker Duckworth Hawley Justice Lummis THE PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Husted). On this vote, the yeas are 56, the nays are 39. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from Iowa.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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