[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 125 (Wednesday, July 31, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5653]
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                      Vote on the Vacca Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Vacca nomination?
  Mr. RISCH. 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 senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Fetterman), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly), the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the 
Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Scott), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Hoeven) would have voted ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 41, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 225 Ex.]

                                YEAS--50

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Van Hollen
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--41

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Mullin
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Fetterman
     Hoeven
     Kelly
     Lee
     Menendez
     Romney
     Scott (SC)
     Vance
     Warner
  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 action.
  The senior Senator from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. CASEY. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for 1 
minute on the next nomination.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


               Nomination Of Joseph Francis Saporito, Jr.

  Mr. CASEY. Madam President, I rise just for 1 minute to talk about 
Judge Saporito.
  Joe Saporito is someone I have known for decades. He is someone who 
serves currently and has for the last 9 years as a magistrate judge in 
the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
  Prior to his service as a Federal magistrate judge, he served as an 
assistant public defender over the course of several decades, at the 
same time doing private practice. So he has broad experience as a 
magistrate judge, as someone who has been in the courtroom, providing a 
defense for people, and also serving in private practice.
  I have great confidence and I think everyone who has dealt with him 
has confidence in his integrity, in his judicial temperament, and in 
his ability to serve with distinction in the Middle District of 
Pennsylvania.
  I would urge a ``yes'' vote on the cloture vote as well as on his 
nomination vote.
  I yield the floor.

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