[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 39 (Tuesday, March 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S986]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   NOMINATION OF CECILIA ELENA ROUSE

  Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. President I strongly support the nomination of 
Cecilia Rouse to chair the Council of Economic Advisors. Dr. Rouse's 
career has focused on strengthening labor markets for American workers, 
improving our education system, and addressing the structural 
inequities that stand in the way of making the economy work for all 
Americans. She brings exactly the right experience and expertise that 
we need to help our Nation weather the economic storm caused by the 
pandemic and build back better.
  Dr. Rouse was one of the clearest voices on the problem of long-term 
unemployment following the last recession. The discussions that my 
colleagues and I have already had with Dr. Rouse make clear that she 
remains focused on helping workers who lost their jobs get back to work 
as the economy recovers it and, going forward, on preventing the 
problem of chronic long-term unemployment that we saw even before the 
pandemic.
  If confirmed, Dr. Rouse would be the first African-American and the 
fourth woman to lead the Council of Economic Advisors in its 74 year 
history. She has been a strong leader in academia and government, and I 
urge my colleagues to support her confirmation.


                      Vote on the Rouse Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters.) All postcloture time has expired.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Rouse 
nomination?
  Ms. CANTWELL. 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 Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn).
  The result was announced--yeas 95, nays 4, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 72 Ex.]

                                YEAS--95

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Braun
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--4

     Cotton
     Paul
     Scott (FL)
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
       Blackburn
       
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). The majority leader.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the motion 
to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, and the 
President be immediately notified of Senate's action.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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