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On the recordNovember 20, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 37, nays 61, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 295 Leg.] YEAS--37 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Mullin Paul Risch Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville NAYS--61 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Helmy Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--2 Braun Vance The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority whip.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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