[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Pages 9511-9512]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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  NOMINATION OF SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL TO BE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND 
                             HUMAN SERVICES

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the 
Senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following 
nomination, which the clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Sylvia Mathews 
Burwell, of West Virginia, to be Secretary of Health and Human 
Services.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the nomination of Sylvia Mathews Burwell, of West Virginia, 
to be Secretary of Health and Human Services?
  Mr. MORAN. 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 assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. 
McCaskill) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. 
Cochran), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), and the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Scott).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. 
Boozman) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) 
would have voted ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Coons). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 78, nays 17, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 175 Ex.]

                                YEAS--78

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Begich
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Chambliss
     Coats
     Coburn
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Crapo
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Flake
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson (WI)
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCain
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Portman
     Pryor

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     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Toomey
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Walsh
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--17

     Ayotte
     Blunt
     Cornyn
     Cruz
     Heller
     Inhofe
     Kirk
     McConnell
     Moran
     Paul
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Vitter

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Boozman
     Cochran
     Lee
     McCaskill
     Scott
  The nomination was confirmed.

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