[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 10, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S2714]
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                       Vote on Powell Nomination

  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Powell 
nomination?
  Mr. COTTON. Mr. President, 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 bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham), and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Graham) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), 
the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), and the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Smith) are necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 44, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 168 Ex.]

                                YEAS--50

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

                                NAYS--44

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

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Graham
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Tillis
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Curtis). 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.

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