[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 73 (Tuesday, May 3, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S2259]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      Vote on Bhargava Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Dakota.
  Mr. THUNE. Madam President, we yield back time, and I would ask for 
the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  All postcloture time is expired.
  Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays are ordered.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Bhargava 
nomination?
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant executive clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet) 
and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Alabama (Mr. Shelby) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. 
Tuberville).
  The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 34, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 146 Ex.]

                                YEAS--62

     Baldwin
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Inhofe
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (SC)
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--34

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Toomey
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Bennet
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Tuberville
  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 actions.
  The majority leader.

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