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On the recordNovember 27, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 47, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 314 Ex.] YEAS--47 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 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 McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Romney Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--11 Barrasso Fetterman Graham Hassan Markey Marshall Ossoff Risch Rubio Warnock Warren The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote the yeas are 47, the nays are 42. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Minnesota. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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