[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 199 (Wednesday, December 21, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S9756]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


     
     
                                EXECUTIVE SESSION
     
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                                EXECUTIVE CALENDAR
     
       The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
     proceed to executive session and consider the following nomination, 
     which the clerk will report.
       The senior assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Agnes 
     Schaefer, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army.
       The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority whip.
       Mr. DURBIN. We yield back all time.
       The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, all time is yielded back.
     
     
                           Vote on Schaefer Nomination
     
       The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Schaefer 
     nomination?
       Mr. DURBIN. 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 senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
       Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: The Senator 
     from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the 
     Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from North Dakota 
     (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from 
     Alabama (Mr. Shelby).
       The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 26, as follows:
     
                           [Rollcall Vote No. 405 Ex.]
     
                                     YEAS--68
     
          Baldwin
          Bennet
          Blumenthal
          Booker
          Brown
          Cantwell
          Capito
          Cardin
          Carper
          Casey
          Cassidy
          Collins
          Coons
          Cornyn
          Cortez Masto
          Duckworth
          Durbin
          Ernst
          Feinstein
          Fischer
          Gillibrand
          Graham
          Grassley
          Hassan
          Heinrich
          Hickenlooper
          Hirono
          Inhofe
          Kaine
          Kelly
          King
          Klobuchar
          Leahy
          Lujan
          Manchin
          Markey
          Menendez
          Merkley
          Moran
          Murkowski
          Murphy
          Murray
          Ossoff
          Padilla
          Peters
          Portman
          Reed
          Romney
          Rosen
          Rounds
          Sanders
          Schatz
          Schumer
          Shaheen
          Sinema
          Smith
          Stabenow
          Tester
          Thune
          Tillis
          Van Hollen
          Warner
          Warnock
          Warren
          Whitehouse
          Wicker
          Wyden
          Young
     
                                     NAYS--26
     
          Blackburn
          Boozman
          Braun
          Cotton
          Crapo
          Daines
          Hagerty
          Hawley
          Hoeven
          Hyde-Smith
          Johnson
          Kennedy
          Lankford
          Lee
          Lummis
          Marshall
          McConnell
          Paul
          Risch
          Rubio
          Sasse
          Scott (FL)
          Scott (SC)
          Sullivan
          Toomey
          Tuberville
     
                                  NOT VOTING--6
     
          Barrasso
          Blunt
          Burr
          Cramer
          Cruz
          Shelby
       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 action.
     
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