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On the recordJanuary 30, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 25, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 25 Ex.] YEAS--66 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Braun Brown Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Durbin Ernst Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--25 Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Cotton Cruz Daines Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Lankford Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Ricketts Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Tuberville Vance Wicker NOT VOTING--9 Barrasso Crapo Fetterman Graham Johnson Lee Manchin Risch Scott (SC) The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). 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. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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