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                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to executive session and vote on the confirmation of Executive 
Calendar No. 682, the nomination of Ruth Montenegro, under the previous 
order.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the Montenegro 
nomination, which the clerk will report.
  The bill clerk read the nomination of Ruth Bermudez Montenegro, of 
California, to be United States District Judge for the Southern 
District of California.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Montenegro nomination?
  Mr. DURBIN. 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 bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Casey), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), and the Senator 
from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan).
  The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 41, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 98 Ex.]

                                YEAS--55

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Markey
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--41

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moran
     Paul
     Portman
     Risch
     Romney
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Thune
     Toomey
     Tuberville
     Wicker

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Casey
     Manchin
     Shaheen
     Sullivan
  The nomination was confirmed.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Murphy). 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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