[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 154 (Friday, September 19, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S6786]
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                        Vote on Waltz Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is, 
Will the Senate advise and consent to the Waltz nomination?
  Mr. COTTON. 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 Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Indiana (Mr. Banks), the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. 
Blackburn), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator 
from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Scott), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan).
  Mr. SCHUMER. I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) 
and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 43, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 530 Ex.]

                                YEAS--47

     Barrasso
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Justice
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Murkowski
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Shaheen
     Sheehy
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--43

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Gallego
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kim
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Slotkin
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Banks
     Blackburn
     Cassidy
     Durbin
     Johnson
     Lee
     Mullin
     Sanders
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
  The nomination 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 Senator from Michigan.