[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 192 (Tuesday, November 10, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6629-S6630]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                        Vote on Knepp Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Knepp nomination?
  Mr. CRAPO. 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. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), 
the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. 
Sullivan), and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young).
  Further, if present and voting the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Washington (Ms. 
Cantwell), the Senator from California

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(Ms. Harris), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator 
from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), 
the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), and the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 24, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 226 Ex.]

                                YEAS--64

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Burr
     Capito
     Carper
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Loeffler
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker

                                NAYS--24

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Cardin
     Casey
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Hirono
     King
     Klobuchar
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Alexander
     Cantwell
     Harris
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Moran
     Murray
     Schatz
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Young
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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.
  The Senator from South Dakota.

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