[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9745]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            VOTE EXPLANATION

  Mr. KAINE. Mr President, during today's session of the Senate, six 
rollcall votes were taken. I was necessarily absent and missed five of 
these votes, due to attending funeral services in Richmond for Ray 
Boone.
  While I missed votes on the confirmation of Leo T. Sorokin, of 
Massachusetts, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Massachusetts and Richard Franklin Boulware II, of Nevada, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Nevada, I did vote to invoke 
cloture on these two nominees on Monday, June 9, 2014.
  I also missed three cloture votes on nominations for the Federal 
Reserve: Lael Brainard, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of 
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Jerome H. Powell, 
of Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal 
Reserve System; and Stanley Fischer, of New York, to be Vice Chairman 
of the Board of Governors. However, I do intend to vote to confirm 
these three Fed nominees on Thursday, June 12, 2014.

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