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On the recordJuly 11, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 213 Ex.] YEAS--52 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 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--39 Barrasso Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--9 Blackburn Capito Daines Markey Marshall Menendez Romney Scott (FL) Tuberville The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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