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On the recordApril 23, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 153 Leg.] YEAS--75 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Butler Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--20 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Britt Budd Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Grassley Hagerty Johnson Lee Lummis Marshall Rubio Sanders Schmitt Scott (FL) Vance NOT VOTING--5 Cardin Hawley Paul Scott (SC) Tuberville The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). On this vote, the yeas are 75, the nays are 20. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to and the point of order falls. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Republican leader. Mr. McCONNELL. This has been an extremely important day in the history of our country and the free world.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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