[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 13 (Wednesday, January 24, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S235]
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                     Vote on the Austin Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, The question is, 
Will the Senate advise and consent to the Austin nomination?
  Mr. DURBIN. 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.
  (Ms. ROSEN assumed the Chair.)
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly) and 
the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 80, nays 17, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 20 Ex.]

                                YEAS--80

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

                                NAYS--17

     Blackburn
     Braun
     Britt
     Crapo
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Marshall
     Paul
     Risch
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Barrasso
     Kelly
     Sanders
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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 actions.