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On the recordJune 12, 2024
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan). The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 194 Ex.] YEAS--83 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Warner Warnock Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--12 Hawley Hirono Kaine Markey Merkley Reed Sanders Schmitt Van Hollen Warren Welch Whitehouse NOT VOTING--5 Brown Butler Menendez Sinema Sullivan The nomination was confirmed. (Mr. FETTERMAN assumed the Chair.) (Ms. KLOBUCHAR assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). The Senator from Delaware.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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