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On the recordFebruary 16, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 61, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 23 Ex.] YEAS--61 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--34 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Tuberville NOT VOTING--5 Brown Casey Cramer Fetterman Vance The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). 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. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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