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On the recordFebruary 25, 2021
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 66 Ex.] YEAS--64 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--35 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cruz Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Sullivan 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
Republican · South Dakota

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