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On the recordDecember 7, 2021
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 479 Ex.] YEAS--68 Baldwin Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Inhofe Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--31 Barrasso Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Risch Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville NOT VOTING--1 Booker The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider will be considered made and laid upon the table and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 7, 2021

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