[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 152 (Wednesday, September 20, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S4624]
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                        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.

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