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On the recordOctober 26, 2023
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 50, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 272 Leg.] YEAS--47 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NAYS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Klobuchar Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 King Padilla Scott (SC) The joint resoluton (S.J. Res. 42) was rejected. (Mr. SCHATZ assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Booker). The majority leader.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota
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Oct 26, 2023

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