[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 58 (Thursday, March 30, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1069-S1070]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                        Vote on Verma Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Verma nomination?
  Mr. MENENDEZ. 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 Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), 
the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. 
Murkowski), and the Senator from Missouri
  The nomination was confirmed. (Mr. Schmitt).
  The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 26, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 81 Ex.]

                                YEAS--67

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Marshall
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--26

     Blackburn
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis

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     Paul
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Barrasso
     Feinstein
     Fetterman
     Hagerty
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Schmitt
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). 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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