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On the recordJanuary 31, 2024
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 29 Ex.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown 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 Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--49 Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt 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 Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Barrasso (Ms. BALDWIN assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 49. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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