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On the recordMarch 3, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Slotkin) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Welch) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 99 Ex.] YEAS--51 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--45 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gallego 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 Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Capito Lummis Slotkin Welch The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ricketts). 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 Senator from Wyoming.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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