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On the recordSeptember 24, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde- Smith), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 251 Ex.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Helmy Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--36 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Thune Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--9 Butler Cardin Coons Cotton Durbin Hyde-Smith Sanders Sullivan Vance The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Welch). 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. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Jersey.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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