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On the recordFebruary 29, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Alabama (Mrs. Britt), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance) would have voted ``yea.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 12, nays 77, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 65 Leg.] YEAS--12 Blackburn Budd Cruz Hawley Johnson Kennedy Lee Lummis Marshall Rubio Scott (FL) Tuberville NAYS--77 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Brown Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schmitt Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--11 Barrasso Britt Cassidy Daines Manchin Moran Paul Risch Romney Scott (SC) Vance The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). On this vote, the yeas are 12, the nays are 77.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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