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On the recordSeptember 20, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), 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'' and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 235 Ex.] YEAS--83 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Mullin Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--11 Braun Cruz Hawley Johnson Lee Lummis Marshall Rubio Schmitt Tuberville Vance NOT VOTING--6 Cotton Feinstein Moran Murkowski Scott (SC) Stabenow The nomination was confirmed (Mr. KELLY assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan).…
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John Thune
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