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“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The result was announced--yeas 77, nays 18, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 338 Ex.] YEAS--77 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--18 Blackburn Boozman Braun Cotton Daines Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Marshall Paul Rubio Scott (FL) Tuberville NOT VOTING--5 Cramer Cruz Ernst Moran Scott (SC) The nomination was confirmed. (Mr. VAN HOLLEN assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action and the Senate will resume legislative session. ____________________”