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On the recordMay 9, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 13, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 161 Leg.] YEAS--84 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--13 Cardin Cassidy Daines Ernst Hawley Johnson Kaine Lee Merkley Schmitt Van Hollen Vance Warner NOT VOTING--3 Braun Scott (FL) Sinema The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 13. Three-fourths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The majority leader. Amendment No. 2040
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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