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On the recordFebruary 27, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Budd), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). Further, if present and voting the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Budd) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) would have voed ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 25 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--39 Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--9 Barrasso Budd Crapo Feinstein Fetterman Merkley Risch Sanders Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 39, and the motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. The Senator from Minnesota. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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