[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 181 (Thursday, November 2, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5327-S5328]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                       Vote on Mahoney Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate?
  Hearing none, the question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to 
the Mahoney nomination?
  Mr. TUBERVILLE. 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Markey) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the 
Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cruz), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from 
Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from 
Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt), the 
Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Scott), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Wicker).
   Futher, if present and voting, the Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
Schmitt) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Scott) would have voted ``yea.''
  The result was announced--yeas 86, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 291 Ex.]

                                YEAS--86

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Britt
     Brown
     Budd
     Butler
     Cantwell

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     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Crapo
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Van Hollen
     Vance
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
     Young

                            NOT VOTING--- 14

     Braun
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Hyde-Smith
     Lee
     Markey
     Moran
     Paul
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Tillis
     Wicker
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Booker). 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.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Illinois.