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On the recordMarch 22, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 127 Ex.] YEAS--68 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Lujan Manchin Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--29 Barrasso Boozman Braun Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lummis McConnell Moran Paul Risch Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Blackburn Murkowski Toomey 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 majority leader. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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