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On the recordFebruary 8, 2024
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 41 Leg.] YEAS--67 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--32 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Fischer Graham Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Marshall Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Rubio Sanders Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Tuberville Vance NOT VOTING--1 Lummis (The PRESIDENT pro tempore assumed the Chair.) (The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). On this vote, the yeas are 67, the nays are 32. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion upon reconsideration is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
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John Thune
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