[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 170 (Tuesday, October 17, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5028]
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                        Vote on Hall Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Hall nomination?
  Mr. CARPER. 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 legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) 
and the Senator from California (Ms. Butler) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. 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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