[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 147 (Thursday, September 17, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4776-S4777]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                      Vote on Mitchell Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). The question is, Will the Senate 
advise and consent to the Mitchell nomination?
  Mr. RICKETTS. 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 senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. 
McConnell), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from 
Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. 
Shaheen) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen), are 
necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 45, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 238 Ex.]

                                YEAS--49

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

                                NAYS--45

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     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
     Smith
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Shaheen
     Tuberville
     Van Hollen

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  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. GRAHAM). The yeas are 49, the nays are 45.
  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 action.

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