[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 5 (Thursday, January 8, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Pages S108-S109]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                      Vote on Van Hook Nomination

  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Van Hook 
nomination?
  Mr. WARNER. 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 North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. 
Daines), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Scott), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), the Senator 
from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. 
Wicker).
  The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 40, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 6 Ex.]

                                YEAS--53

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo

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     Cruz
     Curtis
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Schmitt
     Shaheen
     Sheehy
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Welch
     Young

                                NAYS--40

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

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Cramer
     Daines
     Moran
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Tuberville
     Wicker
  The nomination was confirmed.
  (Mr. MORENO assumed the Chair.)
  (Mr. SULLIVAN assumed the Chair.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). 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 PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.