[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 16 (Saturday, January 25, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S380]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                        Vote on Noem Nomination

  All postcloture time has expired.
  Under the previous order, the question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Noem nomination?
  Mr. BARRASSO. 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. BARRASSO. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the 
Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. 
Schatz), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith), the Senator from 
Georgia (Mr. Warnock), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are 
necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 34, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 17 Ex.]

                                YEAS--59

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     Kim
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Peters
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Sheehy
     Slotkin
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--34

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gallego
     Gillibrand
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kelly
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Markey
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse

                             NOT VOTING--7

     King
     Merkley
     Moran
     Schatz
     Smith
     Warnock
     Wyden
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that with respect 
to the Noem nomination, the motion to reconsider be considered made and 
laid upon the table, and the President be immediately notified of the 
Senate's action; and, further, that the mandatory quorum call with 
respect to the Bessent nomination be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.

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