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                        Vote on Zeya Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is, 
Will the Senate advise and consent to the Zeya nomination?
  Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and 
the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young) 
would have voted ``yea.''

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  The result was announced--yeas 73, nays 24, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 254 Ex.]

                                YEAS--73

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--24

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Paul
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Shelby
     Tillis
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Braun
     Inhofe
     Young
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). Under the previous order, the 
motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and 
the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.

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