[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 9, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S608]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                        Vote on Baker Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Baker nomination?
  Mr. WHITEHOUSE. 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 bill 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 Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst), and the 
Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds).
  The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 21, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 47 Ex.]

                                YEAS--75

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--21

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moran
     Paul
     Romney
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Toomey
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Barrasso
     Ernst
     Lujan
     Rounds
  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 majority leader.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, for the information of Members, we are 
going to have four more votes tonight. I urge Members to sit in their 
seats so we can get these done quickly, like we did last week.
  I ask unanimous consent that the votes be 10 minutes each.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.

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