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On the recordFebruary 17, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney). The result was announced--yeas 65, nays 27 as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 64 Leg.] YEAS--65 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--27 Blackburn Boozman Braun Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hawley Hoeven Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Risch Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville NOT VOTING--8 Burr Feinstein Graham Inhofe Kelly Lujan Romney Rosen The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kaine). On this vote, the yeas are 65, the nays are 27. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the bill is passed. The bill (H.R. 6617) was passed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon. Nomination of Michele Taylor
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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