[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 13 (Thursday, January 20, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S360]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I ask to execute the previous order with 
respect to the Thomas nomination.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following 
nomination, which the clerk will report.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Holly 
A. Thomas, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 
Ninth Circuit.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Thomas nomination?
  Mr. SCHUMER. 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 clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) and 
the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. 
Capito), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from 
North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the 
Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Moran), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from 
South Carolina (Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Toomey).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Marshall) would have voted ``nay.''
  The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 40, as follows:

                    [Rollcall Vote No. 11 Executive]

                                YEAS--48

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

                                NAYS--40

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cramer
     Inhofe
     Marshall
     Moran
     Rounds
     Scott (SC)
     Sinema
     Tester
     Toomey
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). The majority leader.

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