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On the recordDecember 19, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) would have voted ``Nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 45, nays 39, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 400 Ex.] YEAS--45 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Toomey Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--39 Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall McConnell Murkowski Paul Portman Romney Rounds Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--16 Barrasso Burr Cardin Cruz Hickenlooper Inhofe Kaine Lummis Manchin Moran Murray Risch Sasse Shaheen Tillis Van Hollen The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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