[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 158 (Thursday, September 28, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S4740]
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  PROVIDING FOR CONGRESSIONAL DISAPPROVAL UNDER CHAPTER 8 OF TITLE 5, 
UNITED STATES CODE, OF THE RULE SUBMITTED BY THE UNITED STATES FISH AND 
 WILDLIFE SERVICE RELATING TO ``ENDANGERED AND THREATENED WILDLIFE AND 
 PLANTS; ENDANGERED SPECIES STATUS FOR NORTHERN LONG-EARED BAT''--VETO

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
resume consideration of the veto message with respect to S.J. Res. 24, 
which the clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       Veto message, a joint resolution (S.J. Res. 24) to provide 
     for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
     United States Code, of the rule submitted by the United 
     States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to ``Endangered and 
     Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for 
     Northern Long-Eared Bat''.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is, 
Shall the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 24) pass, the objections of the 
President to the contrary notwithstanding?
  The yeas and nays are required under the Constitution.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the 
Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Smith), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the 
Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Vance).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 47, nays 45, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 243 Leg.]

                                YEAS--47

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--45

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Lujan
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Brown
     Cassidy
     Feinstein
     Romney
     Scott (SC)
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Vance
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Fetterman). On this vote, the yeas are 47, 
the nays are 45.
  Two-thirds of the Senators being duly chosen and sworn not having 
voted in the affirmative, the joint resolution on reconsideration fails 
to pass over the President's veto.
  The Senator from Delaware.

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