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On the recordMarch 13, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 121 Ex.] YEAS--56 Alsobrooks Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Gallego Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Slotkin Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--43 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Smith Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Duckworth The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hagerty). Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the President shall be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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