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On the recordSeptember 29, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The result was announced--yeas 82, nays 8, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 244 Ex.] YEAS--82 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Budd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--8 Braun Britt Cruz Hawley Johnson Paul Schmitt Scott (FL) NOT VOTING--9 Capito Cassidy Cramer Daines Marshall Sanders Scott (SC) Smith Stabenow The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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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