[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 199 (Monday, December 4, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5708]
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                       Vote on Ramirez Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Ramirez nomination?
  Mr. SCHATZ. 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 assistant bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the 
Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Johnson), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
Hawley) would have voted ``nay.''
  The result was announced--yeas 80, nays 12, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 326 Ex.]

                                YEAS--80

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Brown
     Budd
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lujan
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Vance
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--12

     Blackburn
     Britt
     Crapo
     Daines
     Hoeven
     Lee
     Marshall
     Mullin
     Paul
     Schmitt
     Sullivan
     Thune

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Barrasso
     Braun
     Cardin
     Hawley
     Johnson
     Risch
     Rubio
     Tuberville
  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.
  The majority leader.

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