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On the recordMarch 14, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan). The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 1, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 92 Ex.] YEAS--89 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Braun Britt Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Cruz Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--1 Kennedy NOT VOTING--10 Boozman Cotton Cramer Daines Markey Mullin Rubio Scott (SC) Shaheen Sullivan The nomination was confirmed. (Mr. KING assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters).…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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