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On the recordSeptember 18, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 229 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Mullin Paul Ricketts Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--6 Barrasso Hoeven Kelly Moran Risch Scott (SC) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 40. The motion is agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). The majority leader. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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