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On the recordJuly 11, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Ricketts), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) would have noted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 176 Ex.] YEAS--51 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--7 Barrasso Durbin King Ricketts Shaheen Sullivan Tillis The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Welch). On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays 42. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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