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On the recordMarch 16, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 61 Leg.] YEAS--68 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Braun Brown Budd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Daines Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schmitt Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--27 Blackburn Boozman Britt Capito Cornyn Cotton Crapo Ernst Fischer Graham Hagerty Hyde-Smith Kennedy Lankford Mullin Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Barrasso Cruz Feinstein Fetterman McConnell (Mr. HICKENLOOPER assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 27. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
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