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On the recordJune 10, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 230 Ex.] YEAS--81 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--16 Blackburn Blunt Braun Cassidy Cruz Hawley Inhofe Johnson Lankford Marshall Paul Sasse Scott (FL) Shelby Sullivan Tuberville NOT VOTING--3 Burr Moran Smith The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). 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 action. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New York.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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