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On the recordFebruary 16, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 24 Ex.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Cardin Carper Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--44 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--6 Brown Casey Fetterman Moran Sanders Vance The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schatz). On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 44. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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