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On the recordMarch 14, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 93 Ex.] YEAS--48 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Crapo Cruz Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Young NOT VOTING--12 Boozman Cotton Cramer Daines Markey Mullin Romney Rubio Scott (SC) Shaheen Sullivan Wicker The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 40. The motion is agreed to.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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