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On the recordNovember 16, 2021
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 470 Ex.] YEAS--68 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--29 Blackburn Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Hoeven Johnson Kennedy Lankford Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Toomey Tuberville Young NOT VOTING--3 Hassan Inhofe Shaheen The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions, and the Senate will resume legislative session. The Senator from Rhode Island. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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