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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 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), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Ricketts), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).

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

The result was announced--yeas 76, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 34 Ex.] YEAS--76 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lujan Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Rosen Rounds Schatz Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tuberville Van Hollen Vance Warner Warnock Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--24 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Budd Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cramer Cruz Daines Fetterman Hawley Hickenlooper Lummis Manchin Moran Ricketts Risch Romney Rubio Sanders Sullivan Tillis Warren

The nomination was confirmed.

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