[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 79 (Wednesday, May 11, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S2444]
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                      Vote on Jefferson Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Jefferson nomination?
  Mr. CARDIN. Madam 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 executive clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Missouri (Mr. Blunt).
  The result was announced--yeas 91, nays 7, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 173 Ex.]

                                YEAS--91

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--7

     Boozman
     Braun
     Cotton
     Hawley
     Paul
     Scott (FL)
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Blunt
     Carper
       
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly).
  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 Senator from Washington.