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On the recordJanuary 18, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott). The result was announced--yeas 77, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 12 Leg.] YEAS--77 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--18 Blackburn Braun Britt Budd Cramer Crapo Cruz Hawley Hoeven Johnson Lee Marshall Paul Risch Schmitt Scott (SC) Tuberville Vance NOT VOTING--5 Barrasso Graham Grassley Kennedy Scott (FL) The bill (H.R. 2872), as amended, was passed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). On this vote, the yeas are 77, the nays are 18. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the bill is passed, as amended. The bill (H.R. 2872), as amended, was passed. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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