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On the recordDecember 6, 2022
I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Hickenlooper), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 376 Ex.] YEAS--49 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--47 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--4 Hickenlooper Kelly Murphy Warnock The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Markey). 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 actions. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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