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On the recordJuly 31, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay''. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 226 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--39 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--9 Fetterman Hoeven Kelly Lee Menendez Romney Scott (SC) Vance Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 39, and the motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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