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On the recordDecember 15, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 396 Leg.] YEAS--83 Baldwin Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lujan Manchin Marshall McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--11 Booker Braun Hawley Lee Lummis Markey Merkley Paul Sanders Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Barrasso Blunt Burr Cruz Hagerty Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). On this vote, the yeas are 83, the nays are 11. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the motion to concur in James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. National Defense Authorization Act
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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