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On the recordSeptember 12, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 239 Ex.] YEAS--49 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Helmy Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Young NOT VOTING--9 Daines Ernst Kennedy Marshall Moran Rosen Rounds Vance Wicker The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 42. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma. Border Security
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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