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On the recordFebruary 28, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 59 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--6 Klobuchar Manchin Marshall Sanders Smith Tuberville The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). The yeas are 52, the nays are 42. The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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