[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 14 (Thursday, January 23, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S317-S318]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                      Vote on Ratcliffe Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Ratcliffe nomination?
  Mr. WICKER. 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) is necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 74, nays 25, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 13 Ex.]

                                YEAS--74

     Alsobrooks
     Banks
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Booker
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Durbin

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     Ernst
     Fischer
     Gallego
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hickenlooper
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     Kim
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Peters
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sheehy
     Slotkin
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Warner
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--25

     Baldwin
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Cantwell
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Reed
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warnock
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Fetterman
       
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). The majority leader.
  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that with respect 
to the Ratcliffe nomination, the motion to reconsider be considered 
made and laid upon the table and the President be immediately notified 
of the Senate's action.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The Democratic leader.