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On the recordMarch 1, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran). The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 68 Ex.] YEAS--64 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--33 Barrasso Boozman Braun Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Graham Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Risch Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--3 Blackburn Blunt Moran The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). 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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