[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5521]
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                        Vote on Gomez Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Gomez nomination, upon reconsideration?
  Mr. SCHUMER. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. 
Cassidy), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator 
from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Johnson), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from 
Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from 
Ohio (Mr. Portman), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator 
from Florida (Mr. Scott), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), and the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) would 
have voted ``nay.''
  The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 36, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 352 Ex.]

                                YEAS--49

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

                                NAYS--36

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Capito
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Lankford
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Sasse
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--15

     Burr
     Cassidy
     Graham
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lee
     Moran
     Portman
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Scott (FL)
     Sullivan
     Tillis
     Toomey
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 
36.
  Upon reconsideration, 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 Senator from Alabama.