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On the recordJanuary 11, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin). The result was announced--yeas 86, nays 8, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 7 Ex.] YEAS--86 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Butler Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--8 Crapo Cruz Hawley Kennedy Lee Risch Schmitt Scott (FL) NOT VOTING--6 Cantwell Cramer Manchin Moran Mullin Sanders The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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