Vote on Hardy Nomination (Executive Session); Congressional Record Vol. 166, No. 132
(Senate - July 27, 2020)

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                        Vote on Hardy Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Hardy nomination?
  Mr. ROMNEY. 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 legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis).

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  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the 
Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), and the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 65, nays 30, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 142 Ex.]

                                YEAS--65

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Braun
     Burr
     Capito
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gardner
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Lankford
     Lee
     Loeffler
     Manchin
     McConnell
     McSally
     Moran
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Paul
     Perdue
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Toomey
     Warner
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--30

     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Harris
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Klobuchar
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murray
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Leahy
     Markey
     Sanders
     Sasse
     Tillis
  The nomination was confirmed
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). The Senator from Alabama.
  Mr. JONES. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the motion to 
reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and that the 
President be immediately notified of the Senate's action.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.