[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 204 (Thursday, December 3, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S7199]
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                        Vote on Hardy Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Hardy nomination?
  Mr. DAINES. 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 Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), 
the Senator from Georgia (Mrs. Loeffler), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. 
Perdue), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) 
and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Capito). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 34, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 253 Ex.]

                                YEAS--59

     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Lee
     Manchin
     McConnell
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Paul
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--34

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Casey
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murray
     Peters
     Rosen
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Burr
     Harris
     Inhofe
     Loeffler
     Perdue
     Portman
     Sanders
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to 
reconsider is considered made and laid upon table, and the President 
will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.
  The Senator from Tennessee.

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