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On the recordSeptember 20, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) would have voted ``yea.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 92, nays 1, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 236 Ex.] YEAS--92 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--1 Lee NOT VOTING--7 Cotton Feinstein Murkowski Paul Schatz Scott (SC) Stabenow The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 92, and the nays are 1. The motion is agreed to. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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