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On the recordJuly 31, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 54, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 228 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey McConnell Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--36 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Thune Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--10 Booker Fetterman Hoeven Manchin Menendez Romney Scott (SC) Stabenow Vance Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 36. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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