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Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance).

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

The result was announced--yeas 82, nays 6, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 214 Ex.] YEAS--82 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Booker Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Schatz Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--6 Blumenthal Butler Hirono Markey Merkley Warren NOT VOTING--12 Cotton Cramer Fetterman Hoeven Hyde-Smith Lee Manchin Marshall Menendez Risch Scott (SC) Vance

The nomination was confirmed.

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