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On the recordMarch 25, 2025
I announce that the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 74, nays 25, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 139 Ex.] YEAS--74 Baldwin Banks Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Cantwell Capito Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gallego Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Slotkin Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Warnock Wicker Young NAYS--25 Alsobrooks Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Gillibrand Hirono Kaine Kim Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Smith Van Hollen Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Padilla The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. The majority leader.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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