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On the recordMarch 9, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell) and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch). The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 50 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Feinstein Fetterman McConnell Risch The nomination was confirmed. (Mr. HEINRICH assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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