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On the recordSeptember 20, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 233 Leg.] YEAS--49 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz 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 Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Booker Murkowski Scott (SC) (Mr. HICKENLOOPER assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER. (Ms. Cortez Masto). On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 48. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Motion to Reconsider
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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