[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 206 (Thursday, December 14, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5986]
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                       Vote on Edwards Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Edwards nomination?
  Mr. SCHUMER. 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. 
Blumenthal) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Welch) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Dains), the Senator from 
Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the 
Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Wyoming 
(Ms. Lummis), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
  The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 24, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 345 Ex.]

                                YEAS--66

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Booker
     Brown
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     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
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--24

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Marshall
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Vance

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Barrasso
     Blumenthal
     Cramer
     Daines
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hyde-Smith
     Lummis
     Tuberville
     Welch
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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.
  The majority whip.

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