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On the recordJuly 27, 2023
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The result was announced--yeas 86, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 212 Leg.] YEAS--86 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Boozman Britt Brown Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Ernst Feinstein Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Menendez Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--11 Booker Braun Lee Markey Merkley Paul Sanders Vance Warren Welch Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Casey Durbin Scott (SC) The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 86, the nays are 11. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the bill, as amended, is passed. The bill (S. 2226), as amended, was passed. (The bill will be printed in a future edition of the Record.) ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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