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On the recordSeptember 6, 2023
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 219 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--45 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Booker Cardin Cotton The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas are 52, the nays 45. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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