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On the recordJune 9, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 224 Ex.] YEAS--49 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Young NOT VOTING--8 Blunt Booker Burr Cramer Portman Toomey Tuberville Wicker The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). 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 actions. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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