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On the recordJuly 9, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 206 Ex.] YEAS--53 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Schmitt Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--5 Cramer Cruz Menendez Rubio Scott (FL) The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 42. The motion is agreed to. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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