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On the recordSeptember 14, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 58, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 360 Ex.] YEAS--58 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--37 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Braun Murkowski Rounds Schatz Young The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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John Thune
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