[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 79 (Monday, May 8, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2792-S2796]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
Immigration Law
Madam President, I want to spend the rest of my time discussing a
specific problem that Texans are all too familiar with; that is, people
breaking our immigration laws, and not just breaking our immigration
laws but then coming into our local communities and committing
additional crimes--assault, murder, rape, you name it--in those
communities even after they have entered the country illegally.
This is a difficult issue and one that I don't raise lightly, but it
is important that when we talk about sanctuary cities and criminal
aliens--these are people who have not just violated the immigration
laws, these are people who have doubled down and have no respect for
our laws, and, frankly, they have no respect for the communities in
which they live. They primarily target the minority community in which
they live and work.
We do need to be clear-eyed about this, and we need to treat it
seriously. We need to remember that our inaction has some real-life
consequences. I have been glad to see the new administration focus on
enforcing the law and restoring respect for the rule of law generally
and taking quick action to help victims of this type of crime in
particular.
I want to take a couple of minutes to tell a story about one
particular victim who was really an American hero, one of my
constituents who lost his life at the hands of a violent illegal
immigrant. That would be Houston police officer Rodney Johnson.
By all accounts, Rodney Johnson was larger than life, standing about
6 feet 5 inches tall, with a smile just as big. He was a dedicated
family man, a husband to fellow Houston Police Department officer
Joslyn Johnson. They had three daughters and two sons. His wife even
called Rodney ``the glue that held the family together.''
Rodney was a hero not only to his family but to the local community
as well. He was a hero for our country, too, because he was a veteran
of the U.S. military police, the U.S. Army. Of course he was a hero for
the State of Texas as a former corrections officer with the Texas
Department of Public Safety.
A few years ago, Rodney ran into the flames of a burning building and
saved the lives of several children. For that act of courage, he was
awarded one of the highest honors a law enforcement officer in Texas
can receive, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement's Medal of Valor.
Sadly, all of that changed in the fall of 2006. At about 5:30 p.m. on
September 21, Officer Johnson pulled over a driver for speeding near
Houston Hobby Airport. By all accounts, it appeared to be a routine
traffic stop, but when the driver, Juan Quintero, could not provide
Officer Johnson with a driver's license, he decided to take him into
custody. What Officer Johnson did not know is that Mr. Quintero was a
hardened criminal illegal immigrant with an extensive record of
offenses, as well as deportations and repeated illegal entries into the
United States. Even more tragically, Officer Johnson did not know that
this career thug was concealing a 9mm handgun in the waistband of his
clothing.
Officer Johnson followed protocol. He handcuffed the criminal
suspect, placed him in the back of his squad car, and began writing a
police report. But just then, Quintero managed to move his cuffed hands
in front of him, reached for his concealed weapon, and opened fire in a
cowardly surprise attack, literally killing Rodney Johnson by shooting
him in the back.
Quintero was a dangerous career criminal who had no respect for our
laws. He had no place in our country and had been deported numerous
times by the Federal Government. But somehow he was free and on the
streets alongside of our families and heroes like Officer Rodney
Johnson. That should be an embarrassment to everyone who believes in
the rule of law and believes that it is government's responsibility at
the local, State, and Federal level to keep our communities safe.
This issue is not going to go away, as much as some of our colleagues
would like to ignore it. There are countless other stories across the
country of victims and their families who have suffered from some of
the worst tragedies imaginable because of criminal illegal immigrants.
I am not talking just about people who have entered the country in
violation of our immigration laws; I am talking about hardened
criminals who target people in their communities for profit or for
other reasons. I have spoken about a number of them from the floor
before.
In addition to Officer Rodney Johnson, I could tell you the story of
Javier Vega, a Border Patrol officer killed by two criminal illegal
immigrants while fishing with his family. These criminals had been
deported numerous times and committed multiple crimes.
I could tell you about Kevin Will, a Houston police officer killed by
a drunk driver who had entered and was living in the United States
illegally and who had been deported twice before.
I could tell you more about Josh Wilkerson, a teenager brutally
killed by a criminal illegal immigrant in 2010,
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somebody who had been arrested numerous times before.
I could tell you about Kara Willingham, who was beaten to death by a
criminal illegal immigrant; Gustavo Burr or Andres Reyes, kidnapped and
held at gunpoint in South Texas; and Neri Garcia, killed by an illegal
alien who caused a drunk-driving accident in the Dallas area.
I could tell you story after story after story of the tragedies
wrought by a Federal policy that did not enforce our borders or make
sure that people, once deported, stayed deported because of the danger
they posed to our communities. I believe this really is a matter of
political will, and we finally, for the first time in the last 8 years,
have an administration and a President who believe in securing our
borders and keeping the public safe.
There are larger and other additional discussions we need to have
about our flawed immigration system, but the first thing we need to do
is regain the public's confidence by securing our borders and enforcing
our laws. I am glad President Trump is well on his way to beginning
that process under the leadership of GEN John Kelly at the Department
of Homeland Security.
The entire point of this is to keep the first commitment that the
government makes to American citizens: that we will protect you and
keep you safe. That is the government's main job, and that includes
protecting all Americans and everyone in the country, literally, from
those career criminals who commit offenses and who thumb their noses at
our immigration laws. As I said, the Trump administration is finally
taking our security seriously, and I am grateful for that. By focusing
on violent repeat offenders, we are protecting our citizens and making
our communities safer places to live. I don't know how anyone could be
against that.
I look forward to doing my part here in the Senate to continue
working with this administration to make sure that our laws are
enforced and not ignored, such as the one signed into law by Governor
Abbott in Texas, making sure that sanctuary cities exist no more and
that every local, State, and Federal law enforcement agency cooperates
in enforcing the law and making our communities safe and regaining the
public's confidence in their own government.
I yield the floor.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from West Virginia.
Mrs. CAPITO. Madam President, today is a glorious day. It is a great
day for this country because we and my colleagues, I believe, will
confirm Heather Wilson to be Secretary of the Air Force.
There are many reasons why it is appropriate for Heather Wilson to be
Secretary of the Air Force. She has Air Force in her DNA. Her father
Doug was an Air Force veteran and commercial pilot. Her grandfather
flew for Britain's Royal Flying Corps in World War I before coming to
the United States and serving as a courier pilot during World War II.
Heather was to be no different. She was a junior in high school when
the Air Force Academy started accepting women. She applied and was
appointed there to be part of the Academy's third class with women. She
also became the first woman to command basic training and the first
woman vice wing commander.
After college she thought she was going to flight school, but those
plans changed because she answered the call and was awarded the very
prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. It was only the sixth year that women
were permitted to apply for a Rhodes Scholarship, and she was a
collegiate rower there and earned a master's degree and a doctorate in
international relations.
Heather's assignments and accomplishments are many. During her
service she was a negotiator and political adviser to the U.S. Air
Force in England and a planning officer for NATO in Belgium, where she
worked on arms control negotiations.
Heather left the Air Force because she heeded another call to serve
as the Director of European Defense Policy and Arms Control on the
staff of the National Security Council. I know she worked very closely
with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the Presidency
of George H.W. Bush, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the collapse of
the Warsaw Pact.
Heather has always been on an upward trajectory. She left government
and started her own company advising defense and scientific
corporations, but public service has always called Heather back. In
1995 she was asked to be the cabinet secretary of the New Mexico
Children, Youth and Families Department, where she oversaw foster care,
adoption, early childhood education, children's mental health, and the
juvenile justice system. From there, again, public service kept calling
her, and she was elected to the House of Representatives in 1998,
becoming the first woman to represent New Mexico since the 1940s and
the first female veteran elected to a full term in the U.S. Congress.
I met Heather Wilson in the House of Representatives. Her time on the
Hill included service on the U.S. House Committee on Armed Services and
the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. I was lucky enough to
serve with Heather, to learn from her and from her incredible depth of
knowledge, her certainty--Heather is so certain--and her ability to cut
through the politics to do what is right for the country. I heard
Heather give many speeches on the House floor, and they were always
through the frame of what is in the best interests of the United
States.
So after she left Congress she founded another company before she was
selected as president of the South Dakota School of Mines and
Technology, and she is there now serving as the school's first female
President. My condolences go to the South Dakota School of Mines and
Technology because duty is calling Heather Wilson back to Washington to
be our Secretary of the Air Force.
There are a lot of firsts in Heather's life. Senator Pete Domenici,
to whom Heather felt very close, once called Heather ``the most
brilliantly qualified House candidate anywhere in the country.''
I say Heather is a brilliantly qualified designee to be Secretary of
the Air Force. She has always been not only an incredible intellectual
and a strong leader, but she is also a very warm, welcoming, and kind
person. We became good friends and remain so to this day. She is a
leader. She is a spouse. She is a mother of two wonderful children, a
pilot, and a veteran. So I am excited about the prospect of Heather's
returning to Washington to become our Secretary of the Air Force.
Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Madam President, Heather Wilson was one of the first
women to graduate from the U.S. Air Force Academy and the third
generation of her family to serve in the Air Force. She was one of the
pioneers of gender integration of the modern Air Force. Even so, her
track record in public service and the private sector after her Air
Force career raises concerns.
While serving as the Representative from New Mexico's First District,
Ms. Wilson admitted to telephoning the U.S. Attorney in Albuquerque to
pressure him on an ongoing corruption investigation of State Democrats,
in violation of House ethics rules.
Ms. Wilson was paid $450,000 between 2009 and 2013 through a Lockheed
Martin subsidiary for consulting work for Sandia National Laboratory.
The Government Accountability Office criticized the lab for not having
adequate documentation of the work that she performed, and Lockheed
Martin ultimately paid $4.7 million to settle charges that it had paid
a lobbyist with taxpayer funds. Ethics laws prohibited Ms. Wilson from
lobbying within a year of serving in Congress. Ms. Wilson failed to
list her business relationship with Sandia Labs in her financial
disclosure filings. In spite of this, she claims that she did nothing
wrong.
During her unsuccessful run for the Senate, Ms. Wilson claimed that
legislation intended to reduce bullying of LGBTQ children was a
violation of religious freedom. She argued that the correct response
was not to punish bullies, but to ``strengthen our children to be more
comfortable with themselves.'' She has steadfastly refused to support
Federal nondiscrimination protections for the LGBTQ community.
The core values of the Air Force are, integrity first, service before
self, and excellence in all we do. In spite of her career as an Air
Force officer, Ms. Wilson has not demonstrated the unflinching
commitment to integrity that we
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demand of our men and women in uniform. She has compromised ethics
rules in Congress, accepted pay for questionable work that was ill-
defined and can't be fully documented, and failed to show that she is
willing to stand up for all serving in uniform, regardless of their
sexual orientation.
For these reasons, I cannot support Ms. Wilson's nomination to be
24th Secretary of the Air Force.
Mrs. CAPITO. I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. REED. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for
the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. REED. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to use 10 minutes
of the Republicans' allotted time because my side has used all of our
time.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. REED. Madam President, I rise today to discuss the nomination of
Dr. Heather Wilson to be Secretary of the Air Force.
The Secretary of the Air Force is an important and influential
position within our national security structure. As the head of the
military Department, the Secretary of the Air Force oversees
recruiting, organizing, training, and equipping of the force. The next
Air Force Secretary will oversee the Defense Department's most complex
and costly acquisition programs in history. The Secretary will also
lead 495,000 Active-Duty, Guard, and Reserve members through the
challenges of rebuilding long-term sustainable readiness, while
contending with ongoing operational demands around the globe.
Dr. Wilson has the knowledge and expertise to serve in that role. She
is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and a Rhodes scholar. She
served in the House of Representatives and on the House Armed Services
Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Currently, Dr. Wilson is president of the South Dakota School of Mines
and Technology.
Without question, Dr. Wilson has notable credentials, but I have
significant concerns about certain of her past actions. First, Heather
Wilson & Company, LLC, founded by Dr. Wilson following her tenure in
Congress, had contracts with four National Nuclear Security
Administration, or NNSA, laboratories--Sandia National Laboratories,
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and
Nevada National Security Site. From January 2009 through part of 2011,
Dr. Wilson's company received $464,000 in payments from these
laboratories for consulting services.
However, due to claims of contracting irregularities involving the
company, the Department of Energy inspector general conducted two
investigations into this matter. As a result, the contractors that
operated the laboratories on behalf of the government paid back at
least $442,877 to the Department of Energy with respect to payments
made to Dr. Wilson's company. The rationale for the repayments was the
absence of any appreciable evidence of work product. Furthermore,
Lockheed Martin, which operated Sandia National Laboratories, agreed to
an overall settlement of $4.7 million for their management failures.
Let me be clear. Dr. Wilson was not found culpable of wrongdoing.
Nevertheless, the allegations that were levied are serious and directly
involved her company. As such, during her confirmation hearing, I asked
Dr. Wilson about these contracts and the allegations of impropriety.
Unfortunately, I did not receive a satisfactory response. Dr. Wilson
deflected any suggestions that she bore any responsibility for these
contracting irregularities.
As concerning as these allegations are, there was another incident
that I found even more problematic as we reviewed Dr. Wilson's
qualifications to serve as Secretary of the Air Force. In October of
2006, while serving as a Member of the House of Representatives, Dr.
Wilson contacted a sitting U.S. attorney, David C. Iglesias, who was
appointed by President George W. Bush, regarding the status of Federal
corruption cases in New Mexico. This action was highly unusual and
contrary to guidance in effect at the time from the House Ethics
Committee. In fact, the House Ethics Manual provided that a request for
background information or a status report from a U.S. attorney ``may in
effect be an indirect or subtle effort to influence the substantive
outcome of the proceedings.'' The guidance provided by the manual
stated that the best way to communicate any inquiry or question was in
writing, in order to make it part of the proceedings.
As a former Member of the House myself, I have deep concerns about
this action in terms of House ethics rules and the possibility that a
Federal prosecutor may have felt pressured by Congress in an ongoing
investigation.
In September of 2008, a joint report by the Department of Justice
inspector general and the Department of Justice Office of Professional
Responsibility, which investigated the removal of nine U.S. attorneys,
including Mr. Iglesias, concluded that ``the evidence we have developed
so far shows that Wilson . . . in fact called Iglesias before the
election, and that the substance of the call led Iglesias to believe he
was being pressured to indict the courthouse case before the upcoming
election.''
During her nomination hearing, Dr. Wilson testified that she called
Mr. Iglesias because, in her words, ``an individual or constituent with
knowledge of ongoing investigations told me that the U.S. Attorney was
intentionally delaying corruption prosecutions, and I felt as though I
had to address that allegation in some appropriate way.'' However, as I
previously mentioned, contacting a U.S. attorney in this manner was
clearly contrary to the ethics rules that govern the conduct of Members
of the House of Representatives.
Perhaps Dr. Wilson, though, does deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe her intention, when she called Mr. Iglesias, was not to pressure
him. However, when I asked Dr. Wilson the name of the individual who
made the allegation about Mr. Iglesias's intentionally delaying
corruption prosecutions, she refused to provide the person's name. Dr.
Wilson argued that she had an obligation not to reveal who it was who
made a highly politicized and unusual charge against Mr. Iglesias.
I think providing the name of the person is important because it
helps us to understand the purpose of Dr. Wilson's call to Mr.
Iglesias. It is one thing if a concerned constituent with no ties or
interests in corruption cases under investigation innocuously contacted
Dr. Wilson. Perhaps her subsequent call to Mr. Iglesias could be
excused. But because we do not have the name, we have no way to verify
the motive. It remains very possible that the person who contacted Dr.
Wilson wanted to pressure Mr. Iglesias to move forward with these
pending corruption cases. If that is the case, it casts Dr. Wilson's
call to Mr. Iglesias in a much different light. Unfortunately, without
further information from Dr. Wilson, I will not be able to resolve my
concerns about this incident.
The two issues I have just discussed have reluctantly led me to
conclude that while Dr. Wilson has excellent academic and professional
qualifications, I must vote against her nomination before the full
Senate.
I yield the floor.
I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for
the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moran). Without objection, it is so
ordered.
Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, a month ago, I spoke in strong support of
Dr. Heather Wilson to be the 24th Secretary of the Air Force. I am
pleased that it appears that her nomination will be confirmed today.
In the many years I have known Dr. Wilson, I have always been
impressed by her intellect and especially by her leadership skills. Her
qualifications and character are beyond dispute. Throughout her life,
she has used her many talents not for personal gain or self-
aggrandizement but for the public good.
Dr. Wilson was one of the first female graduates of the Air Force
Academy,
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which is a pretty impressive accomplishment unto itself, but she set an
even higher standard when she earned a Rhodes scholarship to study at
Oxford University.
Upon being awarded her Ph.D., she went to work for the National
Security Council and then ran for Congress. I got to know Dr. Wilson
through her insightful work on the House Intelligence and Armed
Services Committees. Make no mistake--Dr. Wilson made a difference
during her service in the House. As a well-respected member of the
Intelligence Committee, she built a reputation as a no-nonsense
legislator who was deeply committed to upholding our national security.
In all things, she proved herself to be exceptionally competent, and I
have to say that she proved herself to be worthy of the highest trust.
After her service in the House, Dr. Wilson became the president of
the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. There, she again set a
high bar by leading a school whose alumni, I have been informed, make a
higher average starting salary than do Harvard graduates.
For over 20 years, our Nation's Air Force has been involved in
conflicts all over the world. Now more than ever, the Air Force needs a
proven leader who can modernize the service and lead us to victory. I
believe Dr. Wilson will provide that leadership. I have every
confidence that she will serve with honor and integrity and make a
lasting difference as the next Secretary of the Air Force. I have known
her for a long time. I have gone to her State and worked with her and
campaigned with her. All I can say is that she is a very top-notch
woman leader, one of the best I have seen in all of my time in the U.S.
Senate, and I know she is going to do a terrific job. I am going to
help her every step of the way, and I am sure everybody else here will.
I hope everybody on this floor will vote for Dr. Heather Wilson for
this position. We cannot lose. We are all going to be ahead because she
is willing to serve and serve more, and she is willing to leave what
really is a very comfortable position in order to take one that is not
so comfortable and is very demanding, and I respect her for that and
think the world of her.
Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for
the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, what is the parliamentary situation?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate is considering the nomination of
Heather Wilson to be Secretary of the Air Force.
The time runs out in 37 minutes.
Mr. McCAIN. What is the time of the vote?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The time concludes at 6:03 p.m.
Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I rise to speak in support of the
nomination of Heather Wilson to be the next Secretary of the U.S. Air
Force.
Dr. Wilson is a proven leader and a dedicated public servant. She is
a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and Oxford
University, where she earned master's and doctorate degrees as a Rhodes
Scholar. If confirmed, Dr. Wilson will be the first Air Force Academy
graduate in history to serve as Secretary of the Air Force.
Dr. Wilson served 7 years as an Air Force officer. During the Cold
War, she served in the United Kingdom and at the U.S. Mission to NATO
in Brussels. As the Cold War came to an end, she served on the National
Security Council staff under President George H.W. Bush, working on
issues concerning NATO and arms control.
Dr. Wilson later moved west to marry her husband, Jay, who is also an
Air Force veteran. After a few years in the private sector, Dr. Wilson
once again answered the call to service, first as the head of the New
Mexico Child Welfare Department and later as a Member of the U.S. House
of Representatives.
In Congress, Dr. Wilson was the leading voice on national security.
She took on the tough issues, from surveillance programs to sexual
assault at the Air Force Academy, and she earned the deepest respect of
her colleagues on Capitol Hill, including mine.
For the last 4 years, Dr. Wilson has been the president of the South
Dakota School of Mines, enhancing its reputation as a premier
engineering, science, and research institution.
Now America's Air Force needs her leadership.
The next Secretary will lead America's Air Force in confronting the
most diverse and complex array of global crises since the end of World
War II. The world is on fire, and now more than ever our Nation is
counting on the global vigilance, global reach, and global power that
are the hallmarks of the U.S. Air Force capabilities.
The next Secretary will also inherit the oldest, smallest, and least
ready Air Force in its history. Twenty-five years of continuous
deployments, troubled acquisition programs, and frequent aircraft
divestments have aged and shrunk the Air Force's inventory. The
combination of relentless operational tempo and the self-inflicted
wounds of the Budget Control Act and sequestration have depleted
readiness. Meanwhile, potential adversaries are rapidly shrinking
America's technological advantage and holding our aircraft at greater
risk over greater distances.
In short, we have asked a lot of our Air Force over the last 25
years, and the demands placed on the service continue to grow. Congress
has only added to the problems with the Budget Control Act and
sequestration. We are placing an unnecessary and dangerous burden on
the backs of our airmen, and we cannot change course soon enough.
We owe our airmen the resources, equipment, and training they need to
succeed. We also owe them proven leadership. That is why the Senate
should confirm Dr. Wilson to be the next Secretary of the Air Force.
From the Air Force Academy to the Air Force, to the National Security
Council, to the House of Representatives, Dr. Wilson has proven herself
as a leader. She understands the missions of the Air Force and the
capabilities it brings to the defense of our Nation. I am confident she
will uphold the Air Force's core values: integrity first, service
before self, and excellence in all the Air Force does.
Heather Wilson is the right person to lead the Air Force to a
stronger future, and I urge my colleagues to support her nomination.
Mr. President, I yield back all time.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Wilson
nomination?
Mr. McCAIN. 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. CORNYN. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator
from Georgia (Mr. Isakson).
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is
necessarily absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The result was announced--yeas 76, nays 22, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 122 Ex.]
YEAS--76
Alexander
Baldwin
Barrasso
Bennet
Blunt
Boozman
Brown
Burr
Capito
Carper
Casey
Cassidy
Cochran
Collins
Coons
Corker
Cornyn
Cotton
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Donnelly
Durbin
Enzi
Ernst
Fischer
Flake
Gardner
Graham
Grassley
Hatch
Heinrich
Heitkamp
Heller
Hoeven
Inhofe
Johnson
Kaine
Kennedy
King
Klobuchar
Lankford
Lee
Manchin
McCain
McCaskill
McConnell
Menendez
Moran
Murkowski
Murphy
Nelson
Paul
Perdue
Peters
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Schatz
Scott
Shaheen
Shelby
Stabenow
Strange
Sullivan
Tester
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Udall
Warner
Wicker
Young
NAYS--22
Blumenthal
Booker
Cantwell
Cardin
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Feinstein
Franken
Gillibrand
Harris
Hassan
Hirono
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Leahy
Markey
Merkley
Murray
Reed
Schumer
Van Hollen
Warren
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING--2
Isakson
Sanders
The nomination was confirmed.
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