[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 92 (Thursday, May 26, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2725-S2726]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                    Vote on the Bernicat Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Bernicat nomination?
  Mr. GRASSLEY. 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 Oregon (Mr. Merkley), 
the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Cramer), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman).
  The result was announced--yeas 82, nays 10, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 212 Ex.]

                                YEAS--82

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

                                NAYS--10

     Boozman
     Braun
     Cotton
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Lee
     Paul
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Blackburn
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Portman
     Sanders
     Van Hollen
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Murphy).

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  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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