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On the recordMay 17, 2023
The following Senator is necessarily absent: The Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 127 Ex.] YEAS--57 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--39 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Coons Feinstein Menendez Mullin The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are 39. The motion is agreed to. The Senator from New Jersey. (The remarks of Mr. Booker pertaining to the introduction of S. 1658 are printed in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions.'')
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