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On the recordDecember 22, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The result was announced--70 yeas, 22 nays, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 406 Ex.] YEAS--70 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--22 Blackburn Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Hagerty Hawley Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Risch Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Tuberville NOT VOTING--8 Barrasso Burr Cramer Graham Kennedy Sanders Sasse Tillis The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). 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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