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On the recordMarch 29, 2023
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell). The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 77 Leg.] YEAS--66 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Braun Brown Budd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cortez Masto Cramer Daines Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schmitt Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--30 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Capito Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Ernst Fischer Graham Hagerty Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Mullin Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Coons Feinstein Fetterman McConnell (Applause.) The bill (S. 316) was passed as follows: S. 316 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. REPEAL OF AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE AGAINST IRAQ RESOLUTION. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (Public Law 102-1; 105 Stat. 3; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note) is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. REPEAL OF AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE AGAINST IRAQ RESOLUTION OF 2002.…
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John Thune
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