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On the recordApril 19, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The result was announced--yeas 34, nays 58, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 146 Leg.] YEAS--34 Baldwin Barrasso Booker Braun Brown Cantwell Coons Cramer Daines Durbin Hawley Hirono Hoeven Johnson Kennedy Lee Lummis Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Padilla Paul Sanders Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Tester Tuberville Van Hollen Warren Welch Wyden NAYS--58 Bennet Blumenthal Boozman Britt Budd Butler Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Duckworth Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Ossoff Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Thune Tillis Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NOT VOTING--8 Blackburn Capito Cortez Masto Hagerty Manchin Schmitt Vance Warnock The amendment (No. 1820) was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will be 2 minutes equally divided for debate on the Paul amendment No. 1828. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Kentucky. Amendment No. 1828
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John Thune
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