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On the recordNovember 4, 2021
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds). The result was announced--yeas 58, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 465 Ex.] YEAS--58 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--35 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--7 Burr Cramer Cruz Johnson Rounds Sanders Warnock The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). 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 majority leader is recognized. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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