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On the recordMarch 24, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from Washington (Mr. Murray), the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Welch), are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 136 Ex.] YEAS--62 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Gallego Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hickenlooper Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Reed Risch Rosen Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Wicker Young NAYS--30 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kim Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Ossoff Peters Schatz Schiff Schumer Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Cassidy Fetterman Fischer Murray Padilla Ricketts Sanders Welch The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schmitt). 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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