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On the recordFebruary 8, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). Further, if present and voting, The Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) would have voted ``yea.''; and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 87, nays 7, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 55 Ex.] YEAS--87 Baldwin Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--7 Cotton Cruz Ernst Hagerty Hawley Marshall Scott (FL) NOT VOTING--6 Barrasso Burr Inhofe Moran Paul Toomey The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich).…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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