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On the recordSeptember 11, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 55, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 235 Ex.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Helmy Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Kennedy Rounds Vance The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 55, the nays are 42. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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