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On the recordNovember 19, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 288 Ex.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Helmy Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Young NOT VOTING--8 Braun Cramer Cruz Hagerty Manchin Rubio Vance Wicker The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 42. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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