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On the recordFebruary 28, 2024
I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 77, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 58 Ex.] YEAS--77 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Cruz Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--20 Blackburn Braun Britt Crapo Daines Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Johnson Lankford Marshall Mullin Paul Risch Schmitt Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville NOT VOTING--3 Klobuchar Sinema Smith The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). 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 actions. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Feb 28, 2024

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