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Floor Speech

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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 Indiana (Mr. Braun) would have voted ``aye.''

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).

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

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), 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), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance).

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

The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 15, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 352 Ex.] YEAS--49 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Peters Reed Rosen Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--15 Britt Collins Cotton Crapo Fischer Grassley Hoeven Kennedy Lankford McConnell Ricketts Sullivan Thune Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--36 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Graham Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Mullin Murkowski Padilla Paul Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Tillis Vance

The nomination was confirmed.

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