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On the recordJuly 18, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 72, nays 25, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 188 Ex.] YEAS--72 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Boozman Braun Britt Brown Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--25 Blackburn Booker Budd Collins Cornyn Crapo Hawley Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Markey Marshall Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sanders Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Tuberville Vance Warren NOT VOTING--3 Cardin Mullin Scott (SC) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). On this vote, the yeas are 72, the nays are 25. 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
Republican · South Dakota

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