I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 57, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 47 Ex.] YEAS--57 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Daines Durbin Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Warner Warnock Warren Welch Wyden Young NAYS--35 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Tuberville Vance Wicker NOT VOTING--8 Cardin Carper Duckworth Feinstein Fetterman Sanders Van Hollen Whitehouse The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper).…
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