I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 69, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 186 Ex.] YEAS--69 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cramer Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Johnson Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--30 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Burr Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Risch Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Tillis Tuberville Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Heinrich The nomination was confirmed (Thereupon, the President pro tempore assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). 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. ____________________
On the recordMay 12, 2021
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