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On the recordMay 8, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 12, nays 85, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 160 Leg.] YEAS--12 Cassidy Cornyn Ernst Hawley Johnson Kennedy Lee Marshall Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Vance NAYS--85 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--3 Braun Sinema Tuberville The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The junior Senator from Virginia. H.R. 3935
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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