[Pages S1999-S2000]
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                       Vote on O'Brien Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the O'Brien nomination?
  Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Madam 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. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) and 
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse).
  The result was announced--yeas 71, nays 26, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 130 Ex.]

                                YEAS--71

     Baldwin
     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt
     Booker
     Brown
     Burr
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Crapo
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Feinstein
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Hoeven
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Lujan
     Manchin
     Markey
     McConnell
     Merkley
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Paul
     Peters
     Portman
     Reed
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Sinema
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Toomey
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                                NAYS--26

     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hyde-Smith
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     Moran
     Rubio
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--3

       Coons
     Menendez
     Sasse  
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hickenlooper). 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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  The Senator from Pennsylvania.