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Cloture Motion

The Senate voted on a cloture motion, a procedural vote to end debate and move to a final vote. Senator Durbin announced that six Democratic senators were absent. The motion passed with 70 votes in favor and 21 against.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .

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Richard J. Durbin

Democrat
“Six Democratic senators could not be here for this vote. The final vote count was 70 in favor and 21 against.”
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I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Kim), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 70, nays 21, as follows:

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