[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 106 (Wednesday, June 21, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3677-S3678]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                   Nomination of Marshall Billingslea

  Mr. CRAPO. Mr. President, I rise in support of Mr. Marshall 
Billingslea, who has been nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of 
the Treasury for Terrorist Financing.
  Mr. Billingslea proved at his nomination hearing before the Banking 
Committee that he is exceptionally qualified for this job. As Assistant 
Secretary for Terrorist Financing, Mr. Billingslea would be in charge 
of coordinating Treasury's efforts on terrorist financing, anti-money 
laundering, and other illicit financial threats to the domestic and 
international financial system.
  Mr. Billingslea would work with the entire national security and law 
enforcement communities, the private sector, foreign governments, and 
other entities to carry out this mission.
  As demonstrated at his confirmation hearing, his unique background 
includes 22 years of experience working with these entities to protect 
the Nation, and it also includes time in the legislative and executive 
branches, as well as the private sector. After 9/11, Mr. Billingslea 
served in senior positions in the Department of Defense and NATO. Prior 
to that, he worked on national security affairs at the Senate Foreign 
Relations Committee, where he drafted numerous pieces of sections of 
legislation intended to combat weapons of mass destruction and disrupt 
terrorist networks.
  Mr. Billingslea's qualifications and capabilities were affirmed when 
he received bipartisan support from the Banking Committee in a 19-to-4 
vote.
  Before we proceed to the cloture vote on Mr. Billingslea, we will 
have a final vote on Ms. Sigal Mandelker's nomination to be Under 
Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Crimes, which I 
spoke about yesterday.
  These two positions are critically important to defending our Nation 
from threats and securing our interests. As Assistant Secretary, Mr. 
Billingslea would work closely with Ms. Mandelker as head of the policy 
and outreach apparatus for the Office of Terrorism and Financial 
Intelligence, which Ms. Mandelker would lead.
  As we saw with the Senate passage of the Iran sanctions bill and our 
Russia sanctions amendment last week, there is strong bipartisan 
support in Congress to remain strong against these Nations. As with the 
passage of that bill, I urge my colleagues to confirm Ms. Mandelker and 
to move forward with Mr. Billingslea's nomination so they can carry out 
the important work for which we have already shown such strong 
bipartisan support.
  Thank you. I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is, 
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the Senate advise and consent to the Mandelker nomination?
  Mr. STRANGE. 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 senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  The result was announced--yeas 96, nays 4, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 150 Ex.]

                                YEAS--96

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Franken
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Stabenow
     Strange
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--4

     Booker
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Warren
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lee). The majority leader.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the motion 
to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the 
President be immediately notified of the Senate's action.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.

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