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On the recordOctober 31, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 274 Ex.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Lee Scott (SC) Tillis The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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