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On the recordJuly 19, 2023
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming, (Mr. Barrasso). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 96, nays 2, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 189 Leg.] YEAS--96 Baldwin Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--2 Ernst Tuberville NOT VOTING--2 Barrasso Coons The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 96, the nays are 2. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed to. The amendment (No. 300) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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