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On the recordDecember 7, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson). The result was announced--yeas 63, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 381 Ex.] YEAS--63 Baldwin Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hyde-Smith Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sasse Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--28 Barrasso Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Inhofe Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Risch Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville NOT VOTING--9 Cruz Duckworth Hickenlooper Johnson Kaine Sanders Schatz Warner 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. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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