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On the recordDecember 12, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) would have voted ``Nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 387 Ex.] YEAS--53 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse NAYS--35 Blackburn Boozman Capito Cassidy Cotton Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Romney Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--12 Barrasso Braun Cardin Cramer Cruz Hickenlooper Merkley Moran Risch Rubio Shaheen Wyden The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich).…
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John Thune
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