On the recordOctober 20, 2011
With the consent of the other side, all time will be yielded back. I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Heather A. Higginbottom, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget? The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 171 Ex.] YEAS--64 Akaka Alexander Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Corker Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Inouye Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--36 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo DeMint Enzi Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee Lugar McCain McConnell Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune 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.…





