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On the recordOctober 31, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 276 Ex.] YEAS--53 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lummis McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--4 Lee Marshall Scott (SC) Tillis The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Welch). 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. The majority leader.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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