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On the recordOctober 4, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley) would have voted ``nay.'' [Rollcall Vote No. 249 Ex.] YEAS--67 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--31 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Mullin Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance NOT VOTING--2 Hawley Scott (SC) The nomination was confirmed. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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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