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[Pages S7190-S7191]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
EXECUTIVE CALENDAR
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the next nomination.
The legislative clerk read the nomination of Kea Whetzal Riggs, of
New Mexico, to be United States District Judge for the District of New
Mexico.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and
consent to the Riggs nomination?
Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, 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 senior assistant bill clerk called the roll.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator
from Georgia (Mr. Isakson).
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker),
the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota
(Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the
Senator from Masachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent.
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The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber
desiring to vote?
The result was announced--yeas 94, nays 0, as follows:
[Rollcall Vote No. 423 Ex.]
YEAS--94
Alexander
Baldwin
Barrasso
Bennet
Blackburn
Blumenthal
Blunt
Boozman
Braun
Brown
Burr
Cantwell
Capito
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Cassidy
Collins
Coons
Cornyn
Cortez Masto
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Daines
Duckworth
Durbin
Enzi
Ernst
Feinstein
Fischer
Gardner
Gillibrand
Graham
Grassley
Hassan
Hawley
Heinrich
Hirono
Hoeven
Hyde-Smith
Inhofe
Johnson
Jones
Kaine
Kennedy
King
Lankford
Leahy
Lee
Manchin
Markey
McConnell
McSally
Menendez
Merkley
Moran
Murkowski
Murphy
Murray
Paul
Perdue
Peters
Portman
Reed
Risch
Roberts
Romney
Rosen
Rounds
Rubio
Sasse
Schatz
Schumer
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Shelby
Sinema
Smith
Stabenow
Sullivan
Tester
Thune
Tillis
Toomey
Udall
Van Hollen
Warner
Whitehouse
Wicker
Wyden
Young
NOT VOTING--6
Booker
Harris
Isakson
Klobuchar
Sanders
Warren
The nomination was confirmed.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
Unanimous Consent Agreements--Executive Calendar
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the
cloture motion with respect to Executive Calendar No. 550 be withdrawn.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. McCONNELL. I further ask unanimous consent that following
disposition of the Davis nomination, the Senate resume consideration of
the Biegun nomination and vote on confirmation of the nomination;
finally, if confirmed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and
laid upon the table and the President be immediately notified of the
Senate's action.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Unanimous Consent Agreement
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that following
the disposition of the Biegun nomination, the Senate proceed to
legislative session and resume consideration of the House message to
accompany H.R. 1158; that if cloture is invoked on the motion to concur
in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 1158, the
postcloture time be expired, the other pending motions and amendments
be withdrawn, and the Senate vote on adoption of the motion to concur
in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 1158 with no
intervening action or debate.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
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