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On the recordMay 22, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin). The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 177 Ex.] YEAS--66 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Markey Marshall McConnell Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Risch Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--28 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cornyn Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lee Paul Ricketts Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance NOT VOTING--6 Hagerty Hawley Manchin Menendez Mullin Tester The nomination was confirmed. (Mr. OSSOFF assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). 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
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