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On the recordJanuary 29, 2025
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 24 Ex.] YEAS--56 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gallego Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kelly Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis 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--42 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Booker Ossoff 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 actions.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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