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On the recordMay 1, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde- Smith), and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Ricketts). The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 101 Ex.] YEAS--49 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Lujan Markey 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 NAYS--45 Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--6 Barrasso Feinstein Hyde-Smith Kelly Manchin Ricketts The nomination was confirmed. (Mr. HEINRICH assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). 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. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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