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On the recordFebruary 27, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Ricketts), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 52 Ex.] YEAS--64 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--33 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Risch Schmitt Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Crapo Ricketts Tillis 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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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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