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On the recordApril 16, 2024
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The result was announced--yeas 96, nays 2, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 127 Ex.] YEAS--96 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--2 Marshall Sullivan NOT VOTING--2 Sinema Wicker The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). 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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