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On the recordJune 12, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 86, nays 9, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 193 Ex.] YEAS--86 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 Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Welch Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--9 Hawley Kaine Markey Merkley Reed Sanders Schmitt Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--5 Butler Graham Menendez Sinema Sullivan Change of Vote
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John Thune
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