[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 83 (Thursday, May 13, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S2504]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                     EXECUTIVE CALENDAR--Continued

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination.
  The bill clerk read the nomination of Donet Dominic Graves, Jr., of 
Ohio, to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate and advise 
and consent to the Graves nomination?
  Mr. CASSIDY. 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 bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. 
Heinrich) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. BLUNT. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. 
Thune).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis) 
would have voted ``nay.''
  The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 7, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 191 Ex.]

                                YEAS--89

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

                                NAYS--7

     Barrasso
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Hawley
     Scott (FL)
     Shelby
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Heinrich
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Thune
  The nomination was confirmed.
  (Ms. CORTEZ MASTO assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). 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 Nevada.

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