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On the recordJune 12, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 192 Ex.] YEAS--67 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Lummis Manchin McConnell Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--27 Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cotton Cruz Ernst Hagerty Hawley Johnson Kaine Kennedy Lankford Lee Markey Marshall Paul Rubio Sanders Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Thune Tuberville Vance Warren NOT VOTING--6 Butler Graham Menendez Sinema Sullivan Tillis The nomination was confirmed.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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