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On the recordMay 25, 2021
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy). The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 201 Ex.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--44 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--1 Kennedy The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). 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 majority whip.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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