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On the recordJune 13, 2024
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 197 Leg.] YEAS--48 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 Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--47 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--5 Butler Menendez Sanders Schmitt Sinema (Mr. MERKLEY assumed the Chair.) (Mr. WHITEHOUSE assumed the Chair.) (Mr. CARPER assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 47. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion was rejected.
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John Thune
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