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On the recordDecember 13, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan). The result was announced--yeas 65, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 388 Ex.] YEAS--65 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--31 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Tuberville NOT VOTING--4 Cruz Hickenlooper Murkowski Sullivan The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Sinema). 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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