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                      Vote on Phillips Nomination

  Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to start the 
vote.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Phillips 
nomination?
  Mr. BARRASSO. 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 Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) 
would have voted ``nay.''
  The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 22, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 162 Ex.]

                                YEAS--75

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

                                NAYS--22

     Barrasso
     Boozman
     Braun
     Cassidy
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Lankford
     Lee
     Marshall
     Paul
     Rubio
     Scott (SC)
     Shelby
     Toomey
     Tuberville

                             NOT VOTING--3

       Lummis
     Sanders
     Scott (FL)  
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lujan). 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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