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On the recordMay 11, 2021
I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 182 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--44 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--2 Heinrich Leahy 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 actions. The Senator from Maryland. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 11, 2021

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