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On the recordMay 9, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``nay''. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 116 Ex.] YEAS--53 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 Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--42 Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Ricketts Risch Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Barrasso Feinstein Hoeven Paul Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). The yeas are 53, the nays are 42. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Thune
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