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On the recordDecember 7, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson). The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 380 Ex.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--8 Cruz Duckworth Hickenlooper Johnson Kaine Schatz Warner Warnock The nomination was confirmed. (Ms. SMITH assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Rosen). The Senator from Delaware.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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