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On the recordSeptember 11, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 223 Ex.] YEAS--49 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--44 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Menendez Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Romney Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--7 Braun Cramer Duckworth Ossoff Padilla Risch Scott (SC) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 44. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Jersey.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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