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On the recordFebruary 2, 2023
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The result was announced--yeas 60, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 5 Ex.] YEAS--60 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fetterman Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--37 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Mullin Paul Risch Romney Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Murkowski Rubio Sanders The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schatz). Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider with respect to the Falk and Zakheim nominations are considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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