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On the recordApril 29, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Hickenlooper), the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--60 yeas, 36 nays, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 219 Ex.] YEAS--60 Banks Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Warner Wicker Young NAYS--36 Alsobrooks Baldwin Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Schatz Schiff Schumer Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warnock Warren Welch Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Hickenlooper King Sanders Whitehouse 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 actions. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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