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On the recordDecember 4, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 312 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Helmy Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--45 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Cramer Sinema Vance The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). 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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