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On the recordSeptember 23, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The result was announced--yeas 85, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 377 Ex.] YEAS--85 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--11 Boozman Braun Cotton Cruz Hawley Lankford Paul Rubio Scott (FL) Shelby Tuberville NOT VOTING--4 Feinstein Johnson Kennedy Rounds The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). 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. ____________________
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John Thune
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