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On the recordMay 2, 2023
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 57, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 105 Ex.] YEAS--57 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown 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 Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Feinstein 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 action. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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