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On the recordJanuary 5, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Alaskas (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). THE PRESIDIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 61, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 2 Ex.] YEAS--61 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Fischer Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly King Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Merkley Murphy Padilla Peters Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--26 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Tuberville NOT VOTING--13 Feinstein Graham Inhofe Klobuchar Menendez Murkowski Murray Ossoff Portman Risch Rubio Sanders Sinema 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 action.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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