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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 50, nays…

On the recordApril 10, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 209 Ex.] YEAS--50 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moreno Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--46 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Boozman Moran Mullin Sanders The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is made and laid upon the table, and the President will immediately be notified of the Senate's actions. The Senator from Mississippi.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 10, 2025

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