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On the recordFebruary 16, 2022
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham). The result was announced--yeas 94, nays 1, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 59 Ex.] YEAS--94 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--1 Hawley NOT VOTING--5 Feinstein Graham Kelly Lujan Whitehouse The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). 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 actions. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa.
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John Thune
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