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Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Alabama (Mrs. Britt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Budd), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde- Smith), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), 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 Florida (Mr. Scott), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance).

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

The result was announced--yeas 45, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 201 Ex.] YEAS--45 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--26 Blackburn Boozman Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cruz Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis McConnell Mullin Paul Rounds Schmitt Scott (SC) Thune Wicker Young NOT VOTING--29 Barrasso Braun Britt Budd Cramer Crapo Daines Fetterman Hagerty Hyde-Smith Johnson Manchin Marshall Menendez Moran Murkowski Murray Ricketts Risch Romney Rubio Sanders Scott (FL) Sinema Sullivan Tillis Tuberville Vance Warnock

The nomination was confirmed.

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