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On the recordNovember 1, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The result was announced--yeas 43, nays 53, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 285 Leg.] YEAS--43 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Fischer Graham Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NAYS--53 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Lee Manchin Scott (SC) Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). On this vote, the yeas are 43, the nays 53. The 60-vote threshold having not been achieved, the bill, as amended, fails passage. The bill (H.R. 662), as amended, was rejected. The Senator from New Mexico. ____________________
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John Thune
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