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On the recordMay 3, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 146 Ex.] YEAS--62 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Inhofe Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--34 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Sullivan Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Bennet Shaheen Shelby Tuberville 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 actions. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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