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On the recordJuly 22, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 277 Ex.] YEAS--79 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--16 Blackburn Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cruz Hagerty Hawley Kennedy Lankford Marshall Paul Scott (FL) Shelby Sullivan Tuberville NOT VOTING--5 Burr Daines Johnson Moran Rubio The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). 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. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah. ____________________
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John Thune
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