On the recordMay 17, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Hagan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 102 Ex.] YEAS--70 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hoeven Hutchison Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McConnell Menendez Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Wicker Wyden NAYS--24 Ayotte Blunt Boozman Chambliss Coburn Cornyn Graham Hatch Heller Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Lee McCain Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--6 DeMint Inouye Kirk McCaskill Merkley Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Jerome H. Powell, of Maryland, to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System?
