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On the recordApril 27, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Crammer), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelly). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby) would have voted ``NAY''. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). Are thee any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 171 Ex.] YEAS--49 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--45 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Portman Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--6 Blunt Cantwell Cramer Paul Rounds Shelby The nomination was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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