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On the recordMay 20, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 172 Ex.] YEAS--49 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Van Hollen Warner Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tillis Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--11 Hagerty Hawley Klobuchar Marshall Menendez Moran Rubio Scott (SC) Tester Tuberville Warnock The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich).…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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