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On the recordOctober 17, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 256 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--5 Butler Durbin Paul Schmitt Scott (SC) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 43. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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