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On the recordFebruary 9, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The result was announced--yeas 61, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 50 Ex.] YEAS--61 Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Hickenlooper Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin McConnell Menendez Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--33 Baldwin Blackburn Boozman Braun Cotton Cramer Cruz Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Markey Marshall Merkley Moran Paul Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Toomey Tuberville Warren Young NOT VOTING--6 Barrasso Blunt Heinrich Lujan Rounds Sanders The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. 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. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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