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On the recordMay 17, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) would have voted ``nay''. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 131 Ex.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan 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--48 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--2 Mullin Rubio (Mr. PETERS assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 48. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
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