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Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). Futher, if present and voting, the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) would have voted ``yea.''
The result was announced--yeas 86, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 291 Ex.] YEAS--86 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tuberville Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NOT VOTING--- 14 Braun Cotton Cramer Cruz Hyde-Smith Lee Markey Moran Paul Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Tillis Wicker
The nomination was confirmed.
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