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On the recordFebruary 1, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The result was announced--yeas 61, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 13 Ex.] YEAS--61 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--35 Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville NOT VOTING--4 Barrasso Lujan Romney Tillis The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kaine). 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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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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