||| TOP VOTES Anatomy of a Vote After the vote, the Senate took up the confirmation Dan Coats Confirmation of national security adviser H. R. McMaster for reappointment as an Army lieutenant general. The DNI is a Cabinet-level position that was created SENATE VOTES March 15, 2017 in 2004 following the intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. 89.. Confirmation of the Director of National Intelligence Coats was first appointed to the Senate in 1989 to fill the seat vacated by Vice President Dan Quayle and Confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nomination of served until 1999. He served again from 2011 to 2017. Dan Coats of Indiana to be director of national intelli- gence. 85-12. R 48-1, D 36-10, I 1-1. Rand Paul of Kentucky was the lone Republican to vote against Coats. Among the Democrats voting no were Tammy Bald- win of Wisconsin, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Kamala Harris of California and Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts. From Retirement to Cabinet Member By JONATHAN MILLER senator who does not like Sen. Coats. He is honest, a straight-shooter and Sometimes, it’s good to be a senator. gracious,” the Oregonian said. Wyden After the confirmation fireworks joined a group of nine Democrats and of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont Attorney General Jeff Sessions and EPA in voting against Coats. Wyden’s reason Administrator Scott Pruitt, this week’s had to do with the intelligence commu- vote on the director of national intelli- nity’s resistance in providing informa- gence proved to be a cakewalk for Dan tion on how many Americans have been Coats, the former senator from Indiana. surveilled under the Foreign Intelligence He sailed through his confirmation Surveillance Act. hearing and in the run-up to the vote, Other Democrats voting against protests were scant. Democrats aban- Call Roll Bill Clark/CQ Coats included Kirsten Gillibrand of SENATORIAL PRIVILEGE: Coats, a former senator, doned their late-night, hold-the-floor breezed through his confirmation vote. New York, who has voted against every sessions that had coincided with the pre- Trump nominee save for Veterans vious nomination fights, and Coats moved made an excellent choice in selecting Dan Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and U.N. quickly from a cloture vote to confirmation. for this job,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch Ambassador Nikki Haley. A Republican, Coats served nonconsecu- McConnell of Kentucky said ahead of the The lone Republican to vote no was pri- tive terms representing Indiana and retired vote. vacy advocate Rand Paul of Kentucky. from the Senate at the end of 2016. He was Democrats had nary a bad word: “I have “I was ready to make a transition and a member of the Intelligence and Finance always found Dan to be fair-minded and planned to move on to a new chapter of my committees and, earlier in his tenure, the know him to be an advocate for strong over- lifelong journey back home again in Indi- Appropriations Committee. Between his sight of the intelligence community,” Mark ana,” Coats said during his confirmation two terms, he served as ambassador to Ger- Warner of Virginia said ahead of the vote. hearing. “But as I have learned over those many for President George W. Bush. Oregon’s Ron Wyden appeared to lay on 34 years, life doesn’t always work out that “It goes without saying that the president more love: “I do not know of a single U.S. way.” 10 MARCH 20, 2017 | CQ .