[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 45 (Thursday, March 9, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S734]
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                       Vote on Werfel Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Werfel nomination?
  Mr. WYDEN. 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) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell) and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch).
  The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 42, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 50 Ex.]

                                YEAS--54

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

                                NAYS--42

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Marshall
     Moran
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Feinstein
     Fetterman
     McConnell
     Risch
  The nomination was confirmed.
  (Mr. HEINRICH assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). Under the previous order, the 
motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and 
President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.

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