[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18657]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     EXECUTIVE CALENDAR--Continued


                        Vote on Smith Nomination

  Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I yield back.
  Mr. CARDIN. I yield back.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time is yielded back.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Smith 
nomination?
  Mr. INHOFE. 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 legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte), the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator 
from Arizona (Mr. Flake), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), 
the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from 
Ohio (Mr. Portman), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator 
from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. 
Ayotte) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 7, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 310 Ex.]

                                YEAS--79

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Daines
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Franken
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Perdue
     Peters
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rounds
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Scott
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Toomey
     Udall
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--7

     Blunt
     Crapo
     Heller
     Lee
     Paul
     Risch
     Sasse

                             NOT VOTING--14

     Ayotte
     Burr
     Cruz
     Flake
     Graham
     Johnson
     Kirk
     McCain
     Portman
     Rubio
     Sanders
     Shelby
     Tillis
     Vitter
  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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