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On the recordMay 16, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy). The result was announced--yeas 90, nays 4, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 170 Ex.] YEAS--90 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--4 Britt Schmitt Sullivan Tuberville NOT VOTING--6 Crapo Duckworth Hawley Kennedy Menendez Sanders The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). 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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