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On the recordJune 18, 2024
the following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 88, nays 2, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 200 Leg.] YEAS--88 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin McConnell Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--2 Markey Sanders NOT VOTING--10 Braun Cramer Durbin Fetterman Hoeven Marshall Menendez Sinema Sullivan Tuberville The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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