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On the recordSeptember 7, 2023
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 220 Ex.] YEAS--53 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--45 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--2 Booker Moran The nomination was confirmed. (Mr. KING assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). 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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