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On the recordJanuary 28, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 77, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 21 Ex.] YEAS--77 Alsobrooks Baldwin Banks Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Cantwell Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gallego Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hickenlooper Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Padilla Paul Peters Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Schatz Schiff Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Warnock Welch Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--22 Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Heinrich Hirono Kim Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Reed Sanders Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Ossoff 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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