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On the recordFebruary 2, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 25 Ex.] YEAS--59 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--38 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Hoeven Lujan Romney The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). 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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