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On the recordDecember 16, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Ernst), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Fischer), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Lummis), and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 503 Ex.] YEAS--75 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--18 Blackburn Boozman Braun Cotton Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Lankford Lee Marshall Paul Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--7 Cassidy Cramer Ernst Fischer Johnson Lummis Rounds The nomination was confirmed. (Mr. WHITEHOUSE assumed the Chair.)
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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