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On the recordJuly 28, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse). The result was announced--yeas 61, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 274 Ex.] YEAS--61 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--30 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--9 Burr Duckworth Durbin Inhofe Leahy Manchin Murkowski Sanders Sasse The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President shall be immediately notified of the Senate's action. The majority leader is recognized. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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