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On the recordJuly 27, 2023
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 205 Leg.] YEAS--51 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cardin Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NAYS--47 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Durbin Scott (SC) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Fetterman). On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 47. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No. 1034) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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