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On the recordJanuary 23, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Budd) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 16 Ex.] YEAS--79 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Cruz Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--18 Blackburn Braun Cassidy Crapo Daines Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Johnson Lee Marshall Paul Risch Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Tuberville Vance NOT VOTING--3 Budd Kelly Scott (SC) The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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