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On the recordFebruary 6, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso) and the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis). The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 38 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--44 Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--2 Barrasso Lummis The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Padilla). 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 action. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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