I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 78, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 115 Ex.] YEAS--78 Baldwin Banks Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Booker Boozman Britt Budd Cantwell Capito Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Durbin Ernst Fischer Gallego Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hickenlooper Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy Kim King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Padilla Peters Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Schiff Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Smith Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--19 Alsobrooks Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Paul Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Slotkin Van Hollen NOT VOTING--3 Duckworth Fetterman Justice 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. The majority leader. ____________________
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