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Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst), the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).

The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 523 Ex.] YEAS--49 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--21 Boozman Braun Cassidy Cotton Crapo Cruz Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Lankford Lee Marshall Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker Young NOT VOTING--30 Barrasso Blackburn Burr Capito Cornyn Cramer Daines Ernst Feinstein Fischer Graham Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kaine Lummis Manchin McConnell Moran Murray Ossoff Paul Portman Risch Romney Rounds Sanders Shelby Sinema Toomey

The nomination was confirmed.

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