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On the recordJuly 19, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr Tuberville). The result was announced--yeas 58, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 257 Ex.] YEAS--58 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--36 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Toomey Wicker Young NOT VOTING--6 Fischer Kennedy Leahy Moran Shelby Tuberville The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). 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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