[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 15, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S688]
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                       Vote on Califf Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Califf nomination?
  Mrs. MURRAY. 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 West Virginia (Mrs. Capito) and the Senator from South Carolina 
(Mr. Graham).
  The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 46, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 55 Ex.]

                                YEAS--50

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Romney
     Rosen
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--46

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                   PRESENT AND GIVING A LIVE PAIR--1

       
     Rounds, against
       

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Capito
     Graham
     Lujan
  Mr. ROUNDS. On this vote, I have a pair with the junior Senator from 
New Mexico, Mr. Lujan. If he were present and voting, he would vote 
yea. If I were permitted to vote, I would vote nay. I, therefore, 
withdraw my vote.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Sinema). On this vote, the yeas are 50, 
the nays are 46, and one Senator responded ``present.''
  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.

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