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On the recordJune 15, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The result was announced--yeas 63, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 229 Ex.] YEAS--63 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Wyden Young NAYS--32 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cotton Cramer Cruz Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Murkowski Paul Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville NOT VOTING--5 Daines Moran Toomey Whitehouse Wicker The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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