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On the recordApril 19, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The result was announced--yeas 31, nays 61, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 144 Leg.] YEAS--31 Baldwin Braun Cantwell Coons Cramer Cruz Daines Durbin Hawley Hirono Hoeven Johnson Kennedy Lee Lummis Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Sanders Sullivan Tester Tuberville Van Hollen Warren Welch Wyden NAYS--61 Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Budd Butler Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Crapo Duckworth Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan McConnell Moran Mullin Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Thune Tillis Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NOT VOTING--8 Blackburn Capito Cortez Masto Hagerty Manchin Schmitt Vance Warnock The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 31, the nays are 61. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No. 1829) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Senator Collins 9,000th Vote
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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