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On the recordApril 9, 2024
I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 78, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 116 Ex.] YEAS--78 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--21 Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Lankford Marshall Mullin Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Tuberville Vance NOT VOTING--1 Fetterman The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will immediately be notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 9, 2024

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