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On the recordMarch 15, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young) would have voted ``yea.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 68, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 59 Ex.] YEAS--68 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--26 Blackburn Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cotton Crapo Daines Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Mullin Paul Risch Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Tuberville Vance NOT VOTING--6 Barrasso Cruz Feinstein Fetterman McConnell Young The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). On this vote, the yeas are 68, the nays are 26. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
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