[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 38 (Tuesday, February 28, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S512-S513]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                       Vote on Walker Nomination

  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Walker 
nomination?
  Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, 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 California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator 
from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) 
are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Budd), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), and 
the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Budd) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis) would have voted ``yea.''
  The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 41, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 26 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

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

                                NAYS--41

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Capito

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     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Budd
     Crapo
     Feinstein
     Fetterman
     Merkley
     Sanders
     Tillis
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). 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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