November 17, 2020 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S7023 Sinema Tillis Young The result was announced—yeas 52, Member of the Board of Governors of Sullivan Toomey Thune Wicker nays 44, as follows: the System for the un- [Rollcall Vote No. 232 Ex.] expired term of fourteen years from NAYS—44 YEAS—52 February 1, 2010, shall be brought to a Baldwin Hassan Rosen close? Bennet Heinrich Sanders Barrasso Gardner Portman The yeas and nays are mandatory Blumenthal Hirono Schatz Blackburn Graham Risch Blunt Hawley under the rule. Booker Jones Schumer Roberts Boozman Hoeven Brown Kaine Shaheen Romney The clerk will call the roll. Braun Hyde-Smith Cantwell King Smith Rounds The bill clerk called the roll. Cardin Klobuchar Burr Inhofe Rubio Mr. THUNE. The following Senators Stabenow Capito Johnson Carper Leahy Tester Sasse are necessarily absent: the Senator Casey Markey Cassidy Kennedy Scott (SC) Udall Collins Lankford from Tennessee (Mr. ALEXANDER), the Coons Menendez Shelby Van Hollen Cornyn Lee Cortez Masto Merkley Sinema Senator from (Mr. GRASSLEY), and Warner Cotton Loeffler Duckworth Murphy Sullivan the Senator from Florida (Mr. SCOTT). Warren Cramer Manchin Durbin Murray Thune Further, if present and voting, the Feinstein Whitehouse Crapo McConnell Peters Tillis Gillibrand Reed Wyden Cruz McSally Senator from Tennessee (Mr. ALEX- Daines Moran Toomey ANDER) would have voted ‘‘nay,’’ the Wicker NOT VOTING—4 Enzi Murkowski Senator from Florida (Mr. SCOTT) Young Alexander Harris Ernst Paul would have voted ‘‘yea,’’ and the Sen- Grassley Scott (FL) Fischer Perdue ator from Iowa (Mr. GRASSLEY) would The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas NAYS—44 have voted ‘‘yea.’’ are 52, the nays are 44. Baldwin Hassan Rosen The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Bennet Heinrich The motion is agreed to. Sanders BLACKBURN). Are there any other Sen- Blumenthal Hirono Schatz f Booker Jones Schumer ators in the Chamber desiring to vote? Brown Kaine [Rollcall Vote No. 233 Ex.] EXECUTIVE CALENDAR Shaheen Cantwell King Smith YEAS—47 Cardin Klobuchar Stabenow The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Barrasso Fischer Perdue Carper Leahy Tester clerk will report the nomination. Casey Markey Blackburn Gardner Portman Udall The senior assistant legislative clerk Coons Menendez Blunt Graham Risch Van Hollen Cortez Masto Merkley Boozman Hawley Roberts read the nomination of Benjamin Joel Warner Duckworth Murphy Braun Hoeven Rounds Beaton, of Kentucky, to be United Warren Durbin Murray Burr Hyde-Smith Rubio Whitehouse States District Judge for the Western Feinstein Peters Capito Inhofe Sasse Wyden District of Kentucky. Gillibrand Reed Cassidy Johnson Scott (SC) Cornyn Kennedy Shelby f NOT VOTING—4 Cotton Lankford Sullivan Cramer Lee RECESS Alexander Harris Thune Grassley Scott (FL) Crapo Loeffler The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Cruz McSally Tillis Toomey the previous order, the Senate stands The nomination was confirmed. Daines Moran The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Enzi Murkowski Wicker in recess until 2:15 p.m. Ernst Paul Young Thereupon, the Senate, at 12:17 p.m., the previous order, the motion to re- NAYS—50 recessed until 2:15 p.m. and reassem- consider is considered made and laid bled when called to order by the Pre- upon the table, and the President will Baldwin Hassan Romney be immediately notified of the Senate’s Bennet Heinrich Rosen siding Officer (Mrs. CAPITO). Blumenthal Hirono actions. Sanders f Booker Jones Schatz f Brown Kaine Schumer EXECUTIVE CALENDAR—Continued Cantwell King Shaheen Cardin Klobuchar Sinema VOTE ON BEATON NOMINATION CLOTURE MOTION Carper Leahy Smith Casey Manchin The PRESIDING OFFICER. All Mr. THUNE. Madam President, I ask Stabenow Collins Markey postcloture time has expired. unanimous consent that the manda- Tester Coons McConnell Udall The question is, Will the Senate ad- tory quorum call with respect to the Cortez Masto Menendez vise and consent to the Beaton nomina- Shelton nomination be waived. Duckworth Merkley Van Hollen tion? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Durbin Murphy Warner Feinstein Murray Warren Mr. INHOFE. I ask for the yeas and objection, it is so ordered. Gillibrand Peters Whitehouse nays. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays Harris Reed Wyden The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a before the Senate the pending cloture NOT VOTING—3 sufficient second? motion, which the clerk will state. Alexander Grassley Scott (FL) There appears to be a sufficient sec- The senior assistant legislative clerk ond. read as follows: The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 47, the nays are 50, The clerk will call the roll. CLOTURE MOTION and the motion is not agreed to. The senior assistant legislative clerk We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- called the roll. The motion was rejected. ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- Mr. THUNE. The following Senators Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby jority leader. are necessarily absent: the Senator move to bring to a close debate on the nomi- MOTION TO RECONSIDER from Tennessee (Mr. ALEXANDER), of Judy Shelton, of , to be a Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, Senator from Iowa (Mr. GRASSLEY), and Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the unexpired I enter a motion to reconsider the vote. the Senator from Florida (Mr. SCOTT). term of fourteen years from February 1, 2010. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mo- Further, if present and voting, the Mitch McConnell, , Marsha tion is entered. Senator from Tennessee (Mr. ALEX- Blackburn, Joni Ernst, Pat Roberts, Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, ANDER) would have voted ‘‘yea’’, the , , Deb I ask unanimous consent that the man- Senator from Iowa (Mr. GRASSLEY) Fischer, , , datory quorum call with respect to the would have voted ‘‘yea’’, and the Sen- , , John Crouse nomination be waived. ator from Florida (Mr. SCOTT) would Hoeven, , Michael B. Enzi, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there , . have voted ‘‘yea’’. objection? Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- Without objection, it is so ordered. Senator from California (Ms. HARRIS) is imous consent, the mandatory quorum f necessarily absent. call has been waived. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there The question is, Is it the sense of the CLOTURE MOTION any other Senators in the Chamber de- Senate that debate on the nomination The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant siring to vote? of Judy Shelton, of California, to be a to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the

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