[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 54 (Tuesday, March 23, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S1691]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    NOMINATION OF SHALANDA D. YOUNG

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Madam President, during committee review of Ms. Young's 
nomination to be the Deputy Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget, important questions were raised about whether she would uphold 
and enforce the restrictions of the Hyde amendment if confirmed. I 
found her initial response to a question put to her on the subject 
troubling as it suggested she may seek to use her position to undermine 
Hyde. However, after speaking with Ms. Young and pressing her on the 
issue, I am satisfied that she will follow the law as written by 
Congress without regard to her own personal views. She has assured me 
that she has no intention to revise rules or regulations concerning 
Hyde and understands it is not her place to change law. I therefore 
have decided to vote in favor of her nomination.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan.
  Mr. PETERS. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for 1 
minute.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. PETERS. Madam President, I rise in support of confirming Shalanda 
Young as the Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
  The OMB urgently needs Senate-confirmed leaders, and Ms. Young is 
exceptionally qualified for this role. Her budget experience and 
extensive record of bipartisan results are what the OMB needs to guide 
our Nation through the current pandemic and through the current 
economic crisis.
  During her 14 years as a senior staff member for the House 
Appropriations Committee, Ms. Young developed a deep understanding of 
the budget process and government operations, and she has been 
instrumental in negotiating bipartisan agreements on many critical 
issues.
  She is a proven leader who is ready to get to work at the OMB, and I 
urge my colleagues to join me in supporting her confirmation.
  I yield the floor.


                        Vote on Young Nomination

  Mr. PETERS. Madam President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  All postcloture time is expired.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Young 
nomination?
  The yeas and nays are ordered.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  The result was announced--yeas 63, nays 37, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 129 Ex.]

                                YEAS--63

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--37

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Capito
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young
  The nomination was confirmed

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