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On the recordNovember 1, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 449 Ex.] YEAS--51 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--45 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Romney Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--4 Gillibrand Rounds Rubio Tillis The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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