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On the recordMarch 29, 2023
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 96, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 78 Leg.] YEAS--96 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--4 Coons Feinstein Fetterman McConnell (Mr. HICKENLOOPER assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). On this vote, the yeas are 96, the nays are 0. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
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