[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 190 (Wednesday, December 7, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S7017]
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                        Vote on Perez Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Perez 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 legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. 
Hickenlooper), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from 
Virginia (Mr. Warner), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Texas (Mr. Cruz).
  The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 43, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 378 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

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

                                NAYS--43

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

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Cruz
     Hickenlooper
     Kaine
     Warner
     Warnock
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the 
motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The 
President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.

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