[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 2, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S477]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                       Vote on Staples Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Staples nomination?
  Mr. DURBIN. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient question?
  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 New Mexico (Mr. Lujan) 
is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.''
  The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 38, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 25 Ex.]

                                YEAS--59

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--38

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moran
     Paul
     Risch
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Hoeven
     Lujan
     Romney
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). 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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