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On the recordSeptember 28, 2021
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The result was announced--yeas 61, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 387 Ex.] YEAS--61 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--36 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Feinstein Moran Sinema The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Murphy). 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. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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