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On the recordDecember 8, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 384 Ex.] YEAS--64 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--32 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Risch Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville NOT VOTING--4 Cruz Duckworth Hickenlooper Moran 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 U.S. Senate's actions. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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