[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 3 (Wednesday, January 5, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S34]
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                      Vote on Witkowsky Nomination

  Mr. BLUNT. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the rollcall 
vote be announced.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Witkowsky 
nomination?
  Mr. BLUNT. 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 Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator 
from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), 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 South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Inhofe), the Senator from Alaskas (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from 
Ohio (Mr. Portman), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), and the Senator 
from Florida (Mr. Rubio).
  THE PRESIDIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators 
in the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 61, nays 26, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 2 Ex.]

                                YEAS--61

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--26

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moran
     Paul
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--13

     Feinstein
     Graham
     Inhofe
     Klobuchar
     Menendez
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Portman
     Risch
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sinema
  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.
  The senior Senator from Delaware.