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On the recordFebruary 9, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 93, nays 2, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 45 Ex.] YEAS--93 Baldwin Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito 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 Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--2 Hawley Scott (FL) NOT VOTING--5 Barrasso Lujan Rounds Sanders Tillis The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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