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On the recordJuly 9, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The yeas and nays resulted----yeas 55, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 204 Ex.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--41 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING----4 Capito Cruz Menendez Rubio The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). On this vote, the yeas are 55, the nays are 41. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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