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On the recordSeptember 12, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 238 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Helmy Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--41 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--5 Ernst Kennedy Rosen Rounds Vance The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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