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On the recordApril 9, 2024
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 97, nays 2, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 119 Ex.] YEAS--97 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--2 Scott (SC) Sullivan NOT VOTING--1 Cotton The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Markey). On this vote, the yeas are 97, the nays are 2. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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