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On the recordSeptember 20, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan). The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 366 Ex.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--8 Blackburn Cassidy Feinstein Graham Inhofe Markey Rounds Sullivan The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). The Senator from Oregon.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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