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On the recordJanuary 9, 2024
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy). The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 14, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 2 Ex.] YEAS--83 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Budd Butler Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--14 Braun Britt Hawley Hoeven Marshall Mullin Paul Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance NOT VOTING--3 Cantwell Cassidy Warner The nomination was confirmed. 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
Republican · South Dakota

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