[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Pages 5968-5969]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   NOMINATION OF TERRELL McSWEENY TO BE A FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSIONER

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
proceed to consider the McSweeny nomination, which the clerk will 
report.
  The bill clerk read the nomination of Terrell McSweeny, of the 
District of Columbia, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner for the 
unexpired term of seven years from September 26, 2010.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 
minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form.
  Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, today the Senate is voting to confirm 
Terrell McSweeny's nomination to an open seat on the Federal Trade 
Commission. This vote is long overdue as the FTC has lacked a full 
complement of Commissioners for more than a year. The confirmation of 
Ms. McSweeny will bring the Commission to a full complement of 
Commissioners and ensure that the mission of consumer protection can be 
fully realized.
  Ms. McSweeny is a highly qualified candidate. She has already served 
as Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden. She has worked 
here in the Senate--first as a page while still in high school and 
later as then-Senator Biden's Deputy Chief of Staff and Policy 
Director, and she has been a lawyer in private practice. She is a 
graduate of Harvard University and Georgetown University Law School. I 
have had the privilege of knowing Terrell McSweeney for a number of 
years, and I have every confidence that she will make an excellent FTC 
Commissioner.
  The FTC undertakes critical work to ensure that Americans are 
protected

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from deceptive and misleading advertising and marketing and to ensure 
that American businesses do not engage in unfair and anticompetitive 
practices. I would like to commend the Senate for taking up her 
nomination and urge my colleagues to support Ms. McSweeny's 
confirmation as a Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I yield back the time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. All time 
is yielded back.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination 
of Terrell McSweeny, of the District of Columbia, to be a Federal Trade 
Commissioner for the unexpired term of 7 years from September 26, 2010?
  Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a 
sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays are ordered.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), and 
the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Coburn) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cornyn) would have voted ``yea''.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 95, nays 1, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 105 Ex.]

                                YEAS--95

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Begich
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Boxer
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Crapo
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson (WI)
     Kaine
     King
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Lee
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Paul
     Portman
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Toomey
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--1

       
     Vitter
       

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Bennet
     Coburn
     Cornyn
     Cruz
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Brown). The majority leader is recognized.
  Mr. REID. We have a number of votes scheduled. They are going to go 
by voice, I am told.
  Mr. President, we are going to have a cloture vote an hour after we 
come in tomorrow morning, and there is no reason we cannot be finished 
tomorrow, but that doesn't mean we will be finished tomorrow.
  We will have to cooperate and have to work out the time problems we 
have with the matters that will be pending after we complete the votes 
on these two measures now.
  So we could finish tomorrow. It is up to all of us. Otherwise, we may 
have to spill over a little into late on Friday.

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