[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 218 (Friday, December 17, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S9289]
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                        Vote on Ohta Nomination

  Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second. The yeas and nays are 
ordered.
  All postcloture time has expired.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Ohta 
nomination?
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from 
Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the 
Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. 
Blackburn), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from 
North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. 
Capito), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator 
from Iowa (Ms. Ernst), the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer), the 
Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator 
from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), 
the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Moran), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Portman), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from 
Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the 
Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), and the Senator from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Toomey).
  The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 24, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 511 Ex.]

                                YEAS--47

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

                                NAYS--24

     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Marshall
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--29

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Burr
     Capito
     Cornyn
     Cramer
     Daines
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Graham
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Lummis
     McConnell
     Moran
     Ossoff
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Toomey
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Peters). 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.

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