[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 22 (Thursday, February 2, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S220-S221]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                        Vote on Falk Nomination

  Ms. HASSAN. Mr. President, I request consent for the scheduled vote 
to start immediately.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Falk 
nomination?
  Ms. HASSAN. 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 Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio).
  The result was announced--yeas 60, nays 37, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 5 Ex.]

                                YEAS--60

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--37

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moran
     Mullin
     Paul
     Risch
     Romney
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)

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     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Murkowski
     Rubio
     Sanders
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Schatz). Under the previous order, the 
motions to reconsider with respect to the Falk and Zakheim nominations 
are considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be 
immediately notified of the Senate's action.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.