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On the recordDecember 7, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Lankford). The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 483 Ex.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar 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--47 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Cotton Lankford Leahy The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). 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 leader. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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