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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 83, nays 13, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 58 Ex.] YEAS--83 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Fischer Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--13 Braun Cruz Ernst Hagerty Hawley Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Moran Rubio Scott (SC) Tuberville NOT VOTING--4 Feinstein Graham Kelly Lujan The nomination was confirmed. vote on honey nomination The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). Under the previous order, the question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Honey nomination?
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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