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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 60, nays…

On the recordApril 9, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 60, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 202 Ex.] YEAS--60 Banks 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 King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Murkowski Paul Peters Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Slotkin Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Wicker Young NAYS--37 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gallego Gillibrand Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kelly Kim Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Reed Rosen Schatz Schiff Schumer Smith Van Hollen Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Barrasso Mullin Sanders 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 immediately 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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