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On the recordJanuary 25, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 17 Ex.] YEAS--59 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fetterman Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kaine Kennedy Kim Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Peters Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Slotkin Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--34 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gallego Gillibrand Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kelly Klobuchar Lujan Markey Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Reed Rosen Sanders Schiff Schumer Van Hollen Warner Warren Welch Whitehouse NOT VOTING--7 King Merkley Moran Schatz Smith Warnock Wyden The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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