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On the recordSeptember 8, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski). The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 329 Ex.] YEAS--48 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Padilla Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--47 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--5 Burr Menendez Murkowski Ossoff Rosen The nomination was confirmed. (Mr. BOOKER assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schatz). 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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