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On the recordSeptember 22, 2021
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 372 Ex.] YEAS--64 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--34 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cotton Cramer Cruz Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Feinstein Rounds 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. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The senior Senator from Oklahoma.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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