[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16407]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations, 
which the clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read the nominations of Julie Furuta-Toy, of 
Wyoming, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of 
Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 
United States of America to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea; Dennis 
B. Hankins, of Minnesota, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign 
Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary 
and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of 
Guinea; Harry K. Thomas, Jr., of New York, a Career Member of the 
Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, to be Ambassador 
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to 
the Republic of Zimbabwe; and Robert Porter Jackson, of Virginia, a 
Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-
Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 
United States of America to the Republic of Ghana.


                     Vote on Furuta-Toy Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Furuta-Toy nomination?
  Mr. McCAIN. 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. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Graham), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune), and the Senator 
from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 93, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 283 Ex.]

                                YEAS--93

     Alexander
     Ayotte
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Boozman
     Boxer
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Franken
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Heller
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Johnson
     King
     Kirk
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Lee
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Reid
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Flake
     Graham
     Kaine
     Moran
     Rubio
     Thune
     Vitter
  The nomination was confirmed.


                       Vote on Hankins Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Hankins nomination?
  The nomination was confirmed.


                       Vote on Thomas Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Thomas nomination?
  The nomination was confirmed.


                       Vote on Jackson Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Jackson nomination?
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motions to 
reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table and the 
President will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions.

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