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On the recordMay 11, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Budd), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Budd) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 124 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--41 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--5 Budd Cruz Hoeven Marshall Moran The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schatz). On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 41. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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