[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 157 (Monday, September 24, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S6270]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
EXECUTIVE CALENDAR
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will
proceed to executive session for the en bloc consideration of the
following nominations, which the clerk will report:
The bill clerk read the nominations of Jackie Wolcott, of Virginia,
to be Representative of the United States of America to the
International Atomic Energy Agency, with the rank of Ambassador, and
Jackie Wolcott, of Virginia, to be Representative of the United States
of America to the Vienna Office of the United Nations, with the rank of
Ambassador.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Georgia.
Mr. ISAKSON. All time is yielded back on both sides, and I call for
the rollcall vote.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and
consent to the Wolcott and Wolcott nominations?
Mr. ISAKSON. 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 bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the
Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker), the Senator from Arizona (Mr.
Flake), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from
Kentucky (Mr. Paul), and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse).
Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul)
would have voted ``nay.''
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) is
necessarily absent.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 19, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 213 Ex.]
YEAS--75
Alexander
Baldwin
Barrasso
Bennet
Blumenthal
Blunt
Boozman
Brown
Burr
Cantwell
Capito
Carper
Casey
Cassidy
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cortez Masto
Cotton
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Donnelly
Duckworth
Enzi
Ernst
Fischer
Gardner
Graham
Grassley
Hassan
Hatch
Heitkamp
Hirono
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Isakson
Jones
Kaine
Kennedy
King
Klobuchar
Kyl
Lankford
Lee
Manchin
McCaskill
McConnell
Menendez
Moran
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Nelson
Perdue
Peters
Portman
Risch
Roberts
Rounds
Rubio
Schumer
Scott
Shaheen
Shelby
Smith
Sullivan
Tester
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Warner
Wicker
Young
NAYS--19
Booker
Cardin
Durbin
Feinstein
Gillibrand
Harris
Heinrich
Heller
Leahy
Markey
Reed
Sanders
Schatz
Stabenow
Udall
Van Hollen
Warren
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING--6
Corker
Flake
Johnson
Merkley
Paul
Sasse
The nominations were confirmed en bloc.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motions to
reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table en bloc and the
President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.
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