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On the recordSeptember 20, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) would have voted ``yea.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 89, nays 8, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 234 Ex.] YEAS--89 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--8 Braun Cruz Hawley Lee Marshall Schmitt Tuberville Vance NOT VOTING--3 Feinstein Murkowski Scott (SC) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Murphy). On this vote, the yeas are 89, the nays are 8, and the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Alabama. Nominations
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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