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On the recordDecember 20, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse). The result was announced--yeas 57, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 402 Ex.] YEAS--57 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--35 Blackburn Boozman Braun Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Risch Rounds Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--8 Barrasso Burr Casey Cruz Hickenlooper Inhofe Moran Sasse 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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