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On the recordJuly 11, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Ricketts), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 84, nays 8, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 174 Ex.] YEAS--84 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly Kennedy Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--8 Blackburn Hawley Johnson Paul Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Vance NOT VOTING--8 Barrasso Durbin Fetterman King Ricketts Shaheen Sullivan Tillis 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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