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On the recordFebruary 3, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 30 Ex.] YEAS--59 Banks Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Gallego Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hoeven Husted Johnson Justice Kennedy King Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--38 Alsobrooks Baldwin Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim Klobuchar Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Fetterman Graham Hyde-Smith The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider will be considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority whip.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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