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On the recordDecember 18, 2024
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The result was announced--yeas 97, nays 1, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 327 Leg.] YEAS--97 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton 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 Kim King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schiff Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--1 Lee NOT VOTING--2 Stabenow Vance The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). On this vote, the yeas are 97, the nays are 1. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the motion to concur is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Hawaii. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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