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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 54, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 54 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Risch Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--40 Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune 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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