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On the recordDecember 16, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Lousiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 502 Ex.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--46 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Collins Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--4 Cassidy Cramer Lummis Rounds The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto). The nomination is discharged and will be placed on the calendar. The Senator from Minnesota is recognized.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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