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On the recordMarch 15, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell). The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 56 Ex.] YEAS--52 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Daines Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Graham Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Kaine King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--42 Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Capito Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Ernst Fischer Grassley Hawley Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kelly Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Barrasso Booker Cruz Feinstein Fetterman McConnell 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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