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On the recordAugust 6, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 57, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 286 Ex.] YEAS--57 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--34 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Capito Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell Paul Rounds Scott (FL) Shelby Thune Toomey Warren Wicker Young NOT VOTING--9 Braun Daines Hawley Marshall Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (SC) Tillis The nomination was confirmed. change of vote
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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