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On the recordFebruary 29, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 61 Leg.] YEAS--50 Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Mullin Murkowski Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NAYS--47 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Butler 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 Paul Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Barrasso Moran Sanders The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). On this vote the yeas are 50, the nays are 47. Two-thirds of the Senators voting, having not voted in the affirmative, the joint resolution under consideration fails to pass over the President's veto. ____________________
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John Thune
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