[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 148 (Thursday, September 6, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6050-S6051]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the next nomination.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Charles 
J. Williams, of Iowa, to be United States District Judge for the 
Northern District of Iowa.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Williams nomination?
  Mr. MENENDEZ. 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.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Corker), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Daines), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from 
Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Perdue).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) and 
the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 12, as follows:

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                      [Rollcall Vote No. 204 Ex.]

                                YEAS--79

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Donnelly
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Kyl
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Paul
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Schumer
     Scott
     Shelby
     Smith
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--12

     Booker
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Peters
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Stabenow
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Burr
     Corker
     Cruz
     Daines
     Inhofe
     Moran
     Nelson
     Perdue
     Shaheen
  The nomination was confirmed.

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