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On the recordApril 8, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mrs. Duckworth) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 195 Ex.] YEAS--66 Banks Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Gallego Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hickenlooper Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Reed Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Warnock Wicker Young NAYS--32 Alsobrooks Baldwin Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Cortez Masto Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kim Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Duckworth McCormick 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 notified of the Senate's actions. The majority leader.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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