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On the recordMarch 28, 2023
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell). The result was announced--yeas 31, nays 65, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 72 Leg.] YEAS--31 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Capito Cornyn Cotton Crapo Ernst Fischer Graham Hagerty Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Mullin Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker NAYS--65 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Braun Brown Budd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cortez Masto Cramer Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schmitt Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NOT VOTING--4 Coons Feinstein Fetterman McConnell (Mr. WARNOCK assumed the Chair.) (Mr. HICKENLOOPER assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). On this vote, the yeas are 31, and the nays are 65. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No. 30) was rejected. ____________________
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John Thune
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