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On the recordSeptember 21, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 369 Ex.] YEAS--49 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--48 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Burr Feinstein Rounds The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). The motion to discharge is agreed to, and the nomination is placed on the calendar. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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