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On the recordMarch 2, 2021
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 84, nays 15, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 70 Ex.] YEAS--84 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Lujan Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--15 Barrasso Cotton Cramer Cruz Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Kennedy Lummis Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Tuberville NOT VOTING--1 Blackburn 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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