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On the recordDecember 4, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 80, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 326 Ex.] YEAS--80 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Cruz Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--12 Blackburn Britt Crapo Daines Hoeven Lee Marshall Mullin Paul Schmitt Sullivan Thune NOT VOTING--8 Barrasso Braun Cardin Hawley Johnson Risch Rubio Tuberville The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper).…
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John Thune
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