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On the recordFebruary 28, 2024
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 55 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Schmitt Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Klobuchar Smith Tillis (Mr. SCHATZ assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). The yeas are 54, the nays are 43. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Republican leader.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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