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On the recordAugust 2, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley) would have noted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 276 Ex.] YEAS--59 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--37 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--4 Burr Cornyn Hawley Leahy The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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 actions. The Senator from Illinois.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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