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On the recordDecember 13, 2022
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz). The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 389 Ex.] YEAS--70 Baldwin Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--27 Barrasso Braun Cassidy Cotton Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Toomey Tuberville NOT VOTING--3 Cruz Hickenlooper Shaheen 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 Washington.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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