I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), and the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 84 Ex.] YEAS--68 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--30 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Mullin Paul Risch Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Tuberville Vance NOT VOTING--2 Feinstein Gillibrand 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. ____________________
On the recordApril 18, 2023
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