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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 Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Budd), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines).

Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Budd) would have voted ``nay.''

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin).

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).

Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) would have voted ``nay.''

The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 349 Ex.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--17 Britt Cotton Crapo Fischer Grassley Hoeven Kennedy Lankford McConnell Ricketts Sinema Sullivan Thune Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NOT VOTING--33 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Graham Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Mullin Padilla Paul Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schatz Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Tillis

The nomination was confirmed.

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