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On the recordApril 19, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The result was announced--yeas 11, nays 81, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 147 Leg.] YEAS--11 Braun Daines Hawley Johnson Kennedy Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Scott (FL) Tuberville NAYS--81 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--8 Blackburn Capito Cortez Masto Hagerty Manchin Schmitt Vance Warnock The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 11, the nays are 82. Under the previous order, requiring 60 affirmative votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No. 1828) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will be two minutes for debate, equally divided, on the Durbin amendment No.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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