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On the recordOctober 17, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 255 Ex.] YEAS--67 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--29 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lummis Marshall McConnell Mullin Ricketts Risch Schmitt Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Butler Durbin Paul Scott (SC) 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, 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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