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On the recordMay 12, 2021
I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 188 Ex.] YEAS--66 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--32 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Tillis Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Heinrich Leahy The nomination was confirmed The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). 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. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 12, 2021

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