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On the recordJune 5, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Alabama (Mrs. Britt), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 189 Ex.] YEAS--53 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--7 Booker Braun Britt Graham Hagerty Menendez Vance The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 40, and the motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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