[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 8030]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            VOTE EXPLANATION

 Mr. KAINE. Mr. President, for purposes of today's votes, I 
want to announce that had I voted on Thursday, May 18, 2017, I would 
have voted no on confirmation of Rachel Brand to be Associate Attorney 
General, and I would have voted yea on the motion to invoke cloture on 
Executive Calendar No. 55, the nomination of Terry Branstad, of Iowa, 
to be Ambassador to China.

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