The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The result was announced--yeas 69, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 233 Ex.] YEAS--69 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--28 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Hagerty Inhofe Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell Paul Risch Romney Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Tillis Toomey Tuberville NOT VOTING--3 Booker Peters Rubio The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). 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 actions. The majority leader.
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