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On the recordApril 28, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). Are there any Senators in the Chamber wishing to vote or change his or her vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 174 Ex.] YEAS--68 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--26 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville NOT VOTING--6 Cantwell Cramer Paul Rounds Shelby Toomey The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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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