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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 49, nays…

On the recordApril 9, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 203 Ex.] YEAS--49 Banks Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt 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--5 Barrasso Hawley Mullin Sanders Scott (FL) The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Curtis). 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 action. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 9, 2025

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