[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 15, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S793]
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                      Vote on Chaudhary Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Chaudhary nomination?
  Mr. PADILLA. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant executive clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the 
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), and the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Young).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  The result was announced--yeas 65, nays 29, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 58 Ex.]

                                YEAS--65

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--29

     Blackburn
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Tuberville
     Vance

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Barrasso
     Cruz
     Feinstein
     Fetterman
     McConnell
     Young
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). 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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