[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18654]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to the order of February 29, 1960, 
the hour of 12 noon having arrived, the Senate having been in 
continuous session since yesterday, the Senate will now suspend for a 
prayer by the Senate Chaplain.
  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Sovereign God, ultimate judge of the leadership of this Nation, thank 
You for loving us and calling us to be Your people. Make us worthy of 
the honors You have bestowed upon us. Today, give to our lawmakers Your 
grace and peace so that they may use their talents to empower people to 
live lives of purpose.
  Lord, invade the thinking of our Senators with insights and 
inspiration that they could not produce on their own. May Your 
omniscient wisdom guide them as You strengthen them to do Your will.
  We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All postcloture time has expired.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination 
of Heather Anne Higginbottom, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy 
Secretary of State for Management and Resources?
  Mr. RUBIO. 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) 
and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Coburn), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator 
from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Alexander) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Hatch) would have voted ``yea.''
  The result was announced--yeas 74, nays 17, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 272 Ex.]

                                YEAS--74

     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Baucus
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Grassley
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (SD)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Paul
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Toomey
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--17

     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Cornyn
     Cruz
     Enzi
     Johnson (WI)
     Lee
     McCain
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Vitter

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Alexander
     Boxer
     Coburn
     Crapo
     Graham
     Hatch
     Inhofe
     Kirk
     Schatz
  The nomination was confirmed.

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