[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 192 (Monday, December 12, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S7098]
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                  Vote on Montgomery-Reeves Nomination

  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the 
Montgomery-Reeves nomination?
  Mr. CARPER. Mr. President, 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 legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), 
the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Hickenlooper), the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), and the 
Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) 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 North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cruz), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Risch), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) 
would have voted ``Nay.''
  The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 35, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 387 Ex.]

                                YEAS--53

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse

                                NAYS--35

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Paul
     Romney
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Barrasso
     Braun
     Cardin
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Hickenlooper
     Merkley
     Moran
     Risch
     Rubio
     Shaheen
     Wyden
  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.
  The majority leader.

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