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On the recordDecember 5, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 60, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 373 Ex.] YEAS--60 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Braun Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--31 Blackburn Boozman Burr Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville NOT VOTING--9 Barrasso Brown Cramer Hickenlooper Leahy Murphy Risch Rubio Warnock The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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 Nevada. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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