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On the recordNovember 6, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Alabama (Mrs. Britt), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), 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 59, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 292 Ex.] YEAS--59 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--32 Blackburn Budd Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee McConnell Mullin Paul Ricketts Rubio Sanders Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--9 Barrasso Braun Britt Fetterman Hoeven Ossoff Risch Schumer Scott (SC) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). On this vote, the yeas are 59, the nays are 32. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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