[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 152 (Wednesday, September 20, 2023)] [Senate] [Page S4624] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] Vote on Brown Nomination The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Brown nomination? Mr. KAINE. 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 legislative clerk called the roll. Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent. Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 235 Ex.] YEAS--83 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Mullin Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--11 Braun Cruz Hawley Johnson Lee Lummis Marshall Rubio Schmitt Tuberville Vance NOT VOTING--6 Cotton Feinstein Moran Murkowski Scott (SC) Stabenow The nomination was confirmed (Mr. KELLY assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be notified of the Senate's actions. ____________________