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On the recordSeptember 29, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 390 Ex.] YEAS--70 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Inhofe Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--27 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lummis Marshall Paul Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville NOT VOTING--3 Blunt Crapo Moran 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
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