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On the recordMay 15, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Ricketts), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 166 Ex.] YEAS--51 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 Markey Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--7 Capito Crapo Manchin Menendez Ricketts Sanders Vance The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is made and laid upon the table, and the President will be notified of the Senate's actions. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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