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On the recordSeptember 21, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 96, nays 1, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 237 Ex.] YEAS--96 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Mullin Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--1 Lee NOT VOTING--3 Feinstein Murkowski Scott (SC) The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). 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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