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On the recordAugust 1, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 229 Ex.] YEAS--59 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Graham Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--34 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Mullin Ricketts Risch Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Thune Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--7 Fetterman Hoeven Menendez Romney Scott (SC) Vance Warner The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). 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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