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On the recordOctober 25, 2023
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 269 Leg.] YEAS--56 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Menendez Moran Mullin Murkowski Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Warner Wicker Young NAYS--42 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Paul Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Padilla Scott (SC) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). On this vote, the yeas are 56, the nays are 42. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No. 1232) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from West Virginia. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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