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On the recordJanuary 18, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Missouri Mr. Hawley would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 44, nays 50, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 10 Leg.] YEAS--44 Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NAYS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Barrasso Graham Grassley Hawley Kennedy Scott (FL) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). On this vote, the yeas are 44, the nays are 50. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. The amendment (No.…
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John Thune
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