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On the recordJune 8, 2022
I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 221 Ex.] YEAS--59 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Cruz Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Gillibrand The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). 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 action. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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