Vote on Valderrama Nomination (Executive Session); Congressional Record Vol. 166, No. 161
(Senate - September 17, 2020)

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                     Vote on Valderrama Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Valderrama nomination?
  Mr. DURBIN. 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 bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. 
Capito), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), 
the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Arizona 
(Ms. Sinema) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 26, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 182 Ex.]

                                YEAS--68

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hirono
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Jones
     Kaine
     Kennedy
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     McSally
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Roberts
     Romney
     Rosen
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Udall
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--26

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Daines
     Enzi
     Ernst
     Gardner
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Loeffler
     Paul
     Perdue
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sullivan
     Thune

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Burr
     Capito
     Harris
     Moran
     Sanders
     Sinema
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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 actions.

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