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On the recordDecember 13, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Lummis), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 494 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--45 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Marshall McConnell Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--5 Inhofe Lummis Moran Rubio Tillis The nomination was confirmed. (Mr. WHITEHOUSE assumed the Chair.) 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. The Senator from Rhode Island.
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John Thune
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