[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 17984-17985]
[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 nomination, 
which the clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read the nomination of Scott Allen, of 
Maryland, to be United States Director of the European Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Allen nomination?
  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. 
Cassidy), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran),

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the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. 
Flake), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Gardner), the Senator from 
Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the 
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), 
the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter), and the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Wicker).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Colorado (Mr. 
Gardner) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. 
Klobuchar), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator 
from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), 
and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Isakson). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 300 Ex.]

                                YEAS--83

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

                             NOT VOTING--17

     Blunt
     Cassidy
     Cochran
     Cruz
     Flake
     Gardner
     Heller
     Klobuchar
     McCaskill
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Stabenow
     Vitter
     Wicker
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to 
reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the President 
will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.

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