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On the recordMay 4, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 115 Ex.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--44 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tillis Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--6 Feinstein Johnson Moran Sanders Scott (SC) Tuberville The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schatz). On this vote, the yeas are 50, and the nays are 44. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Hampshire.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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