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On the recordFebruary 9, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 43 Ex.] YEAS--72 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--24 Blackburn Boozman Braun Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Paul Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--4 Barrasso Hawley Lujan Rounds The nomination was confirmed. (Mr. CASEY assumed the Chair.) (Mr. HEINRICH assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER. (Mr. Hickenlooper). 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
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