[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 218 (Friday, December 17, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S9300]
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                            VOTE EXPLANATION

  Mr. HAWLEY. Mr. President, had there been a recorded vote, I would 
have voted no on the confirmation of Executive Calendar No. 608, Adm. 
Christopher W. Grady, for appointment in the United States Navy to the 
grade indicated while assigned to a position of importance and 
responsibility under title 10, U.S.C., sections 154 and 601.
  Had there been a recorded vote, I would have voted no on the 
confirmation of Executive Calendar No. 239, Michele Jeanne Sison, of 
Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (International 
Organization Affairs).
  Had there been a recorded vote, I would have voted no on the 
confirmation of Executive Calendar No. 320, Rufus Gifford, of 
Massachusetts, to be Chief of Protocol, and to have the rank of 
Ambassador.
  Had there been a recorded vote, I would have voted no on the 
confirmation of Executive Calendar No. 323, Marcela Escobari, of 
Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development.
  Had there been a recorded vote, I would have voted no on the 
confirmation of Executive Calendar No. 440, Claire D. Cronin, of 
Massachusetts, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of 
the United States of America to Ireland.
  Had there been a recorded vote, I would have voted no on the 
confirmation of Executive Calendar No. 442, Bathsheba Nell Crocker, of 
the District of Columbia, to be Representative of the United States of 
America to the Office of the United Nations and Other International 
Organizations in Geneva, with the rank of Ambassador.
  Had there been a recorded vote, I would have voted no on the 
confirmation of Executive Calendar No. 446, Jack A. Markell, of 
Delaware, to be Representative of the United States of America to the 
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, with the rank of 
Ambassador.
  Had there been a recorded vote, I would have voted on the 
confirmation of Executive Calendar No. 447, Denise Campbell Bauer, of 
California, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 
United States of America to the French Republic, and to serve 
concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador 
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to 
the Principality of Monaco.
  Had there been a recorded vote, I would have voted no on the 
confirmation of Executive Calendar No. 454, Mark Gitenstein, of 
Washington, to be Representative of the United States of America to the 
European Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary 
and Plenipotentiary.
  Had there been a recorded vote, I would have voted no on the 
confirmation of Executive Calendar No. 519, Julissa Reynoso Pantaleon, 
of New York, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 
United States of America to the Kingdom of Spain, and to serve 
concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador 
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to 
the Principality of Andorra.
  Had there been a recorded vote, I would have voted no on the 
confirmation of Executive Calendar No. 625, John R. Bass, of New York, 
a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career 
Minister, to be an Under Secretary of State (Management), vice Brian J. 
Bulatao.

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