[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 218 (Friday, December 17, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S9295]
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                      Vote on Menendez Nomination

  Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, I yield back all time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Menendez 
nomination?
  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. 
Feinsten), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Manchin), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), 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 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 49, nays 21, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 523 Ex.]

                                YEAS--49

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

                                NAYS--21

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

                             NOT VOTING--30

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