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On the recordJune 14, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse) would have voted ``nay''. The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 231 Ex.] YEAS--53 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--44 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Blunt Rubio Sasse The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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