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On the recordMarch 12, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith) and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy). The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 86 Ex.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--41 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--4 Hyde-Smith Kennedy Shaheen Sinema 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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