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On the recordFebruary 23, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 78, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 61 Ex.] YEAS--78 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lee Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--20 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Cotton Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Lankford Marshall Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Tuberville NOT VOTING--2 Paul Toomey 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 action. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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