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On the recordSeptember 23, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The result was announced--yeas 69, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 249 Ex.] YEAS--69 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Britt Budd Butler Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Collins Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Helmy Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lummis Markey McConnell Merkley Moran Murkowski Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--17 Blackburn Boozman Braun Cruz Ernst Hagerty Hawley Lankford Lee Marshall Mullin Paul Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Tuberville NOT VOTING--14 Brown Cardin Cassidy Coons Cotton Fetterman Hyde-Smith Lujan Manchin Murphy Risch Sinema Sullivan Vance The nomination was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the President will be notified immediately of the Senate's actions. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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