[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 4 (Tuesday, January 9, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S31-S32]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                        Vote on Kazen Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, all postcloture time 
is expired.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Kazen 
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 bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Washington (Ms. 
Cantwell) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy).
  The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 14, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 2 Ex.]

                                YEAS--83

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

                                NAYS--14

     Braun
     Britt
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Marshall
     Mullin
     Paul
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Cantwell
     Cassidy
     Warner
  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,

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and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.

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