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On the recordMarch 30, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt). The result was announced--yeas 63, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 82 Ex.] YEAS--63 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--27 Blackburn Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Mullin Paul Risch Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Tuberville Vance NOT VOTING--10 Barrasso Cramer Feinstein Fetterman Hagerty McConnell Moran Murkowski Sanders Schmitt The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schatz). 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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