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On the recordSeptember 10, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 233 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Helmy Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Wyden NAYS--43 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--5 Crapo Rounds Rubio Vance Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 43. The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
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