[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 76 (Wednesday, May 8, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2710-S2711]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                       Vote on Bachus Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the Bachus nomination.
  The legislative clerk read the nomination of Spencer Bachus III, of 
Alabama, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import 
Bank of the United States for a term expiring January 20, 2023.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Bachus nomination?
  Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. 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 Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), 
the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), and the Senator 
from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 22, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 101 Ex.]

                                YEAS--72

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     King
     Leahy
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Menendez
     Moran
     Murphy
     Murray
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--22

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Braun
     Cruz
     Daines
     Gillibrand
     Grassley
     Harris
     Hawley
     Inhofe
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Markey
     Merkley

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     Paul
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Shelby
     Toomey
     Warren
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Booker
     Klobuchar
     Murkowski
     Sanders
     Sinema
     Whitehouse
  The nomination was confirmed.