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On the recordJune 8, 2021
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 220 Ex.] YEAS--66 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--33 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville NOT VOTING--1 Sanders 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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Jun 8, 2021

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