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On the recordNovember 2, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The result was announced--yeas 88, nays 10, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 456 Ex.] YEAS--88 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--10 Blackburn Braun Cotton Cruz Hawley Marshall Rubio Scott (FL) Shelby Tuberville NOT VOTING--2 Rounds Tillis 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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