[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 71 (Tuesday, April 29, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S2620]
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                       Vote on Perdue Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Perdue nomination?
  Ms. BALDWIN. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell) and the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Paul).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. 
McConnell) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. 
Blumenthal) and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are 
necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 29, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 215 Ex.]

                                YEAS--67

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Booker
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gallego
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     Kim
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sheehy
     Slotkin
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Warner
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--29

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blunt Rochester
     Cantwell
     Cortez Masto
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kelly
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Blumenthal
     McConnell
     Paul
     Whitehouse
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Curtis). 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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