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On the recordNovember 2, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Florida ((Mr. Scott), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``yea.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 95, nays 1, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 288 Ex.] YEAS--95 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schmitt Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tuberville Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--1 Marshall NOT VOTING--4 Lee Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). The yeas are 95, the nays are 1. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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