[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 134 (Saturday, August 2, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5509-S5510]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                        Vote on Telle Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Telle nomination?
  Mr. MURPHY. 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. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from South Carolina 
(Mr. Scott), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. 
Wicker) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), 
the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego), and the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Welch) are necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 22, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 498 Ex.]

                                YEAS--72

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin

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     Murkowski
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Shaheen
     Sheehy
     Slotkin
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Warner
     Warnock
     Whitehouse
     Young

                                NAYS--22

     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Duckworth
     Hirono
     Kim
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Bennet
     Gallego
     McConnell
     Scott (SC)
     Welch
     Wicker
  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 actions.

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