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On the recordFebruary 29, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 60 Ex.] YEAS--56 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--41 Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Barrasso Moran Sanders 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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