[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 79 (Tuesday, May 7, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3380-S3381]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                       Vote on Welton Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Welton nomination?
  Mr. CARDIN. 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 Arizona (Ms. Sinema) 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 Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Lankford), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul) 
would have voted ``nay.''
  The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 40, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 159 Ex.]

                                YEAS--52

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Butler

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     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--40

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Mullin
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Vance
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Barrasso
     Braun
     Cotton
     Lankford
     Paul
     Rubio
     Sinema
     Tuberville
  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.

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