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On the recordApril 30, 2025
I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Welch), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 227 Leg.] YEAS--52 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--40 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murray Ossoff Padilla Reed Rosen Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warnock Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Heinrich McConnell Murphy Peters Sanders Warner Welch Whitehouse The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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