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On the recordSeptember 28, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisianna (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 242 Leg.] YEAS--47 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NAYS--46 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker 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 Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Brown Cassidy Feinstein Romney Scott (SC) Smith Stabenow The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Booker). On this vote, the yeas are 47, the nays are 46. Two-thirds of the Senators being duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the joint resolution on reconsideration fails to pass over the President's veto. ____________________
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John Thune
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