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On the recordMay 7, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Lankford), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 159 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--8 Barrasso Braun Cotton Lankford Paul Rubio Sinema Tuberville The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock).…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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