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On the recordNovember 18, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The result was announced--yeas 46, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 282 Leg.] YEAS--46 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Helmy Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--36 Barrasso Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Fischer Graham Grassley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Wicker Young NOT VOTING--18 Blackburn Braun Cassidy Coons Ernst Fetterman Hagerty Hawley Manchin Marshall Romney Rubio Sanders Sinema Tester Tuberville Van Hollen Vance The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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