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On the recordJuly 13, 2022
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 248 Ex.] YEAS--66 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Inhofe Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--28 Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Shelby Thune Tillis Tuberville NOT VOTING--6 Blumenthal Leahy Lujan Moran Sanders Schumer The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). 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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