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On the recordNovember 8, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The yeas andnays resulted--yeas 51, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 300 Ex.] YEAS--51 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--47 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines 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) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--2 Ernst Scott (SC) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 47. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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