[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 106 (Tuesday, June 9, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2784-S2785]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  The VICE PRESIDENT. Under the previous order, the Senate will proceed 
to executive session to consider the following nomination, which the 
clerk will report.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of General 
Charles Q. Brown, Jr., for appointment as Chief

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of Staff, United States Air Force, and appointment in the United States 
Air Force to the grade indicated while assigned to a position of 
importance and responsibility under title 10, U.S.C., sections 601 and 
9033: to be General.
  Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to consider the nomination.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. Under the previous order, the question is, Will 
the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of General Charles Q. 
Brown, Jr.?
  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) 
and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) are necessarily absent.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote or to change their vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 98, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 115 Ex.]

                                YEAS--98

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Harris
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Loeffler
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Cardin
     Markey
       
  The VICE PRESIDENT. On this vote the yeas are 98, the nays are 0, and 
the historic nomination of Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr., as the U.S. Air 
Force Chief of Staff is confirmed
  The VICE PRESIDENT. Under the previous order, the motion to 
reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the 
President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.

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