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On the recordMarch 22, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) would have voted ``nay''. The result was announced--yeas 74, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 114 Leg.] YEAS--74 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin 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--24 Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Budd Crapo Cruz Daines Hagerty Hawley Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Ricketts Risch Rubio Sanders Schmitt Scott (SC) Tuberville Vance NOT VOTING--2 Braun Scott (FL) The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 74, the nays are 24. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this motion, the motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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