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On the recordDecember 20, 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 Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The result was announced--yeas 80, nays 10, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 401 Ex.] YEAS--80 Baldwin Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--10 Braun Daines Hawley Johnson Kennedy Lankford Marshall Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) NOT VOTING--10 Barrasso Burr Cruz Hickenlooper Inhofe Lummis Moran Sanders Sasse Wicker The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Sinema). 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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