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On the recordJanuary 23, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 60, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 1 Ex.] YEAS--60 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Kelly Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Ossoff Peters Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--35 Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hickenlooper Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lummis Marshall Mullin Paul Ricketts Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance NOT VOTING--5 King Lee Murkowski Padilla Risch The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). 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 Senator from Arizona. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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