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On the recordMarch 8, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance) would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 43, nays 50, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 80 Leg.] YEAS--43 Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville 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--7 Barrasso Cotton Hawley Manchin Romney Vance Wicker The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). The majority leader.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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