[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 218 (Friday, December 17, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9297-S9298]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the next nomination.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Rahm 
Emanuel, of Illinois, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and 
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Japan.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Emanuel nomination?
  Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, 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 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 
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

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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 
Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), 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 48, nays 21, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 526 Ex.]

                                YEAS--48

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

                                NAYS--21

     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Markey
     Marshall
     Merkley
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Warren
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--31

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

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