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On the recordJanuary 22, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hirono). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 93, nays 2, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 5 Ex.] YEAS--93 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--2 Hawley Lee NOT VOTING--5 Burr Capito Hyde-Smith Moran Tillis The nomination was confirmed The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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