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On the recordMay 12, 2022
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 80, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 176 Ex.] YEAS--80 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 Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lujan Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--19 Boozman Braun Cotton Cruz Hawley Johnson Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Ossoff Paul Rubio Sanders Scott (FL) Shelby Sullivan Warren Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Toomey 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 immediately be notified of the Senate's action. The Senator from New Jersey is recognized.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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