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On the recordJuly 11, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 212 Leg.] YEAS--48 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 Merkley Murphy Murray Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--46 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Ossoff Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--6 Capito Daines Markey Menendez Romney Scott (FL) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Sinema). On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 46. The point of order is well-taken. The motion to discharge falls. The point of order is sustained and the motion falls. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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