[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 17 (Tuesday, January 30, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S283]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                        Vote on Kolar Nomination

  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Kolar 
nomination?
  Mr. BROWN. 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 Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Fetterman) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the 
Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Risch), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott).
  The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 25, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 25 Ex.]

                                YEAS--66

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

                                NAYS--25

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Daines
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Lankford
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Sullivan
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Barrasso
     Crapo
     Fetterman
     Graham
     Johnson
     Lee
     Manchin
     Risch
     Scott (SC)
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Warnock). 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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