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On the recordMay 17, 2023
The following Senator is necessarily absent: The Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin). The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 130 Leg.] YEAS--50 Barrasso 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 Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NAYS--47 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Coons Menendez Mullin The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 18) was passed, as follows: S.J. Res. 18 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the final rule submitted by the Department of Homeland Security relating to ``Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility'' (87 Fed. Reg. 55472 (September 9, 2022)), and such rule shall have no force or effect. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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