[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 197 (Monday, December 19, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S7281]
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                      Vote on Gruenberg Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is, 
Will the Senate advise and consent to the Gruenberg nomination?
  Mr. BROWN. Madam 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 Virginia 
(Mr. Kaine), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), the Senator 
from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. 
Shaheen), and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Burr), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the Senator from 
Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator 
from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) 
would have voted ``Nay.''
  The result was announced--yeas 45, nays 39, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 400 Ex.]

                                YEAS--45

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Casey
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Toomey
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--39

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

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Barrasso
     Burr
     Cardin
     Cruz
     Hickenlooper
     Inhofe
     Kaine
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Moran
     Murray
     Risch
     Sasse
     Shaheen
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
  The nomination was confirmed.

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