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On the recordSeptember 28, 2021
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 73, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 386 Ex.] YEAS--73 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--26 Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Feinstein The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). 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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Sep 28, 2021

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