[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 146 (Monday, September 12, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4534-S4535]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                       Vote on Mendoza Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Mendoza nomination?
  Ms. CANTWELL. 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.

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  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the 
Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan), the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez), the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla), the Senator 
from Michigan (Mr. Peters), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), and 
the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the 
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), 
the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun) 
would have noted ``nay''.
  The result was announced--- yeas 46, nays 40, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 331 Ex.]

                                YEAS--46

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--40

     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Portman
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--14

     Barrasso
     Braun
     Brown
     Hassan
     Menendez
     Padilla
     Paul
     Peters
     Risch
     Scott (SC)
     Sinema
     Stabenow
     Toomey
     Young
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). 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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