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On the recordNovember 1, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote? The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 282 Leg.] YEAS--52 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Ossoff Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NAYS--45 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kelly Klobuchar Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Lee Scott (SC) Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 45. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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