[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 188 (Tuesday, October 26, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7362]
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                      Vote on Williams Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). Under the previous order, the 
question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Williams 
nomination?
  Mrs. MURRAY. 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.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), and the 
Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), and the 
Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) 
would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) 
would have voted ``nay.''
  The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 38, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 433 Ex.]

                                YEAS--56

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

                                NAYS--38

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Cruz
     Feinstein
     Manchin
     Marshall
     Rounds
     Sinema
  The nomination was confirmed.