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On the recordApril 23, 2024
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 80, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 152 Leg.] YEAS--80 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--19 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Budd Cruz Daines Hagerty Hawley Johnson Lee Lummis Marshall Merkley Rubio Sanders Schmitt Scott (FL) Tuberville Vance NOT VOTING--1 Paul The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 80, the nays are 19. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Cloture having been invoked, the motion to refer and the amendments pending thereto fall. The majority leader.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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