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On the recordJuly 21, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy). The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 266 Ex.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Sinema Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--40 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Risch Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Blunt Cramer Kennedy Leahy Smith The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schatz). 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 actions. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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