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On the recordSeptember 30, 2023
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The result was announced--yeas 88, nays 9, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 247 Leg.] YEAS--88 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--9 Blackburn Braun Cruz Hagerty Lee Marshall Paul Schmitt Vance NOT VOTING--2 Scott (SC) Stabenow The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the passage of this bill, the bill is passed. The bill (H.R. 5860) was passed. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader is recognized.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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