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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 Texas (Mr. Cruz). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 290 Ex.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Helmy Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--48 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--2 Braun Cruz The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 48. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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