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On the recordMay 24, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) would have voted ``nay.'' The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 194 Ex.] YEAS--49 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Murphy Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--43 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--8 Boozman Inhofe Merkley Murkowski Murray Rubio Toomey Van Hollen The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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