[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 69 (Wednesday, April 21, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2106-S2107]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                        Vote on Gupta Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All postcloture time is expired.

[[Page S2107]]

  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Gupta 
nomination?
  Mr. DURBIN. 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.
  The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 49, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 160 Ex.]

                                YEAS--51

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

                                NAYS--49

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young
  The nomination was confirmed
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). The majority leader.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, first I just want to say, before I move 
on a motion to discharge, it is really so good to have Vanita Gupta now 
installed as Associate Attorney General. To have someone with such a 
background in civil rights at this time in American history is so 
important and so vital to the country.
  I am so glad that the Senate has now approved her and she can do her 
vital job, including dealing with the systemic bias we have seen in 
policing and in law enforcement throughout the country. So it is very 
good news for the forces of equality and justice in the country.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I ask that the motion to reconsider be 
made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate and 
that the President be immediately notified of the Senate's action.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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