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On the recordSeptember 19, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 247 Leg.] YEAS--47 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Tester Thune Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--47 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Butler Cantwell Cardin Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Helmy Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse NOT VOTING--6 Carper Marshall Rounds Tillis Vance Wyden (Mr. KING assumed the Chair.) (The PRESIDENT pro tempore assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Booker). On this vote, the yeas are 47, the nays are 47. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No. 3289) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will now be 2 minutes of debate, equally divided.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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