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On the recordDecember 12, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 323 Ex.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--45 Barrasso Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Moran Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--5 Blackburn Marshall McConnell Mullin Vance The nomination was confirmed. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Booker). The Senator from Connecticut. 12th Anniversary of Sandy Hook Shooting
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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