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On the recordSeptember 21, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) would have voted ``yea.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 96, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 238 Ex.] YEAS--96 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--4 Feinstein Murkowski Romney Scott (SC) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). On this vote, the yeas are 96, the nays are 0. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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