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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 (Ms. Ernst), the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby). The result was announced--yeas 76, nays 13, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 504 Ex.] YEAS--76 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--13 Blackburn Boozman Braun Cotton Hagerty Hawley Lankford Lee Marshall Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Tuberville NOT VOTING--11 Cassidy Cramer Ernst Feinstein Fischer Johnson Leahy Lummis Risch Rounds Shelby The nomination was confirmed. (Mr. KING assumed the Chair.)
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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