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On the recordSeptember 23, 2021
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 375 Ex.] YEAS--68 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--30 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Cassidy Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Feinstein Rounds The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kaine). 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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