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On the recordOctober 28, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 444 Ex.] YEAS--56 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--41 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Feinstein Kennedy Rounds The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are 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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