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On the recordApril 10, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 211 Ex.] YEAS--59 Banks Barrasso Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kaine Kelly Kennedy Kim King Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moreno Murkowski Reed Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Schiff Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Slotkin Sullivan Thune Warner Wicker Young NAYS--26 Alsobrooks Baldwin Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Duckworth Durbin Gallego Hirono Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Schatz Schumer Smith Van Hollen Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse NOT VOTING--15 Bennet Blackburn Boozman Coons Daines Hawley Moran Mullin Paul Peters Sanders Shaheen Tillis Tuberville Wyden 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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