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On the recordOctober 16, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 63, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 254 Ex.] YEAS--63 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Budd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--26 Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Cotton Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lummis Marshall McConnell Mullin Ricketts Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--11 Barrasso Butler Capito Cruz Durbin Fetterman Moran Paul Risch Rubio Scott (SC) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 26. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Minnesota. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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