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On the recordMarch 30, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Missouri The nomination was confirmed. (Mr. Schmitt). The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 81 Ex.] YEAS--67 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--26 Blackburn Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Paul Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Tuberville Vance Wicker NOT VOTING--7 Barrasso Feinstein Fetterman Hagerty McConnell Murkowski Schmitt The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). 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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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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