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On the recordFebruary 8, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 42 Ex.] YEAS--66 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--31 Blackburn Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall Moran Paul Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Toomey Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Barrasso Lujan Rounds 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 actions. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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