[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 81 (Thursday, May 12, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S2477]
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                       Vote on Powell Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Powell nomination?
  Mr. BROWN. 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 legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Toomey) would have voted ``yea.''
  The result was announced--yeas 80, nays 19, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 176 Ex.]

                                YEAS--80

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

                                NAYS--19

     Boozman
     Braun
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Hawley
     Johnson
     Lee
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Ossoff
     Paul
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Scott (FL)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Warren
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Toomey
       
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). Under the previous order, the 
motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and 
the President will immediately be notified of the Senate's action.
  The Senator from New Jersey is recognized.