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On the recordFebruary 1, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso) and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, and nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 31 Ex.] YEAS--53 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Tester Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--4 Barrasso Hoeven Peters Stabenow The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 43. The motion is agreed to.
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John Thune
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