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On the recordOctober 31, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance) would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 45, nays 50, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 279 Leg.] YEAS--45 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tuberville 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 Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Lee Scott (SC) Tillis Vance Warner The amendment (No. 1243) was rejected. (Mr. MARKEY assumed the Chair.) The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Iowa.
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John Thune
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