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The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:

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The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:

Vote date
2024-12-20
Chamber
senate
Result
passed
Yeas
20
Nays
18
Excused
0
Not voting
0
Related measure
measure-5391
Related sitting
sitting-757

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Chamber
senate
Context text
other side of the aisle know has not been vetted by committee. There were no hearings, there was no discourse, it was introduced in fiscal year 2023—that was a year ago. People are sleeping right now and Christmas is a week from now. We need to ensure we have proper debate over our appropriations bills. In all seriousness, we could have had a debate about appropriations but House Republicans walked off the job. They left the chamber on the other side of the Capitol Building and said they threw their hands in the air and didn’t want to invest in school safety grants which we could have agreed on. They did not want to invest in additional supports for public safety or public universities or community colleges. Hundreds of millions of dollars that we could have closed the books on, but House Republicans walked off the job. That is something we should all be in agreement upon because we could be debating this amendment as we speak. I ask for a “no” vote, and I urge my colleagues to vote “no.” The question being on the passage of the bill, The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Excused
0
Measure id
measure-5391
Motion text
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Nays
18
Not voting
0
Result
passed
Sitting id
sitting-757
Vote date
2024-12-20
Vote id
vote-8196
Vote number
678
Yeas
20

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