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On the recordMarch 6, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly) and the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 66, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 109 Ex.] YEAS--66 Banks Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Gallego Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hickenlooper Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kaine Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Ossoff Peters Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Schiff Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Slotkin Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Warnock Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--30 Alsobrooks Baldwin Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Paul Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Van Hollen Warren Welch Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Fetterman Kelly Lummis Padilla The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 66, the nays are 30. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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