Authorizing the En Bloc Consideration in Executive Session of Certain Nominations on the Executive Calendar
Floor Speech
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Mr. BARRASSO. On behalf of the chairman of the Budget Committee, I object.
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Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Banks) and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee).
The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 47, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 526 Ex.] YEAS--51 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Wicker Young NAYS--47 Alsobrooks Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Banks Lee
The en bloc nominations provided under the provisions of S. Res. 377 were confirmed, as follows:
Executive Calendar No. 89, Jessica Kramer, of Wisconsin, to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Executive Calendar No. 105, Dario Gil, of New York, to be Under Secretary for Science, Department of Energy
Executive Calendar No. 107, Brandon Williams, of New York, to be Under Secretary for Nuclear Security
Executive Calendar No. 121, Tristan Abbey, of Florida, to be Administrator of the Energy Information Administration
Executive Calendar No. 122, Leslie Beyer, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Executive Calendar No. 123, Theodore J. Garrish, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (Nuclear Energy)
Executive Calendar No. 124, Andrea Travnicek, of North Dakota, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Executive Calendar No. 132, Justin Overbaugh, of Florida, to be a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
Executive Calendar No. 133, Scott Pappano, of Pennsylvania, to be Principal Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration
Executive Calendar No. 135, Michael Cadenazzi, of Rhode Island, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense
Executive Calendar No. 136, Sean O'Keefe, of Virginia, to be a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
Executive Calendar No. 137, Michael Obadal, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of the Army
Executive Calendar No. 139, Katherine Sutton, of Illinois, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense
Executive Calendar No. 141, William L. Doffermyre, of Texas, to be Solicitor of the Department of the Interior
Executive Calendar No. 142, Kyle Haustveit, of Oklahoma, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (Fossil Energy)
Executive Calendar No. 152, Matthew Napoli, of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security Administration
Executive Calendar No. 153, Richard Anderson, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
Executive Calendar No. 154, Conner Prochaska, of Texas, to be Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency--Energy, Department of Energy
Executive Calendar No. 156, Tina Pierce, of Idaho, to be Chief Financial Officer, Department of Energy
Executive Calendar No. 157, Jonathan Brightbill, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Department of Energy
Executive Calendar No. 161, Robert Gleason, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of the Amtrak Board of Directors for a term of 5 years
Executive Calendar No. 177, Sean McMaster, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration
Executive Calendar No. 180, Donald Bergin III, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Congressional and Legislative Affairs)
Executive Calendar No. 185, John Squires, of Florida, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Executive Calendar No. 251, Daniel Aronowitz, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor
Executive Calendar No. 276, Michael Dodd, of Indiana, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense (New Position)
Executive Calendar No. 277, William Gillis, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army
Executive Calendar No. 278, Jules Hurst III, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army
Executive Calendar No. 279, Brent Ingraham, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army
Executive Calendar No. 283, George Wesley Street, of Virginia, to be Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center
Executive Calendar No. 285, Peter Thomson, of Louisiana, to be Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency
Executive Calendar No. 289, Jeffrey Bartos, of Pennsylvania, to be Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, with the Rank of Ambassador, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as an Alternate Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations
Executive Calendar No. 290, Jennifer Locetta, of Florida, to be Alternate Representative of the United States of America for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as an Alternate Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations
Executive Calendar No. 297, Dudley Hoskins, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs
Executive Calendar No. 298, Scott Hutchins, of Indiana, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics
Executive Calendar No. 303, Benjamin DeMarzo, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Executive Calendar No. 305, Jovan Jovanovic, of Pennsylvania, to be President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States for a term expiring January 20, 2029
Executive Calendar No. 324, Richard Fordyce, of Missouri, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm Production and Conservation
Executive Calendar No. 344, Paul Roberti, of Rhode Island, to be Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Department of Transportation
Executive Calendar No. 346, Jonathan Morrison, of California, to be Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Executive Calendar No. 352, Jason Evans, of Texas, to be an Under Secretary of State (Management)
Executive Calendar No. 356, Edward Aloysius O'Connell, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the term of 15 years
Executive Calendar No. 362, Katherine Scarlett, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Council on Environmental Quality
Executive Calendar No. 365, Bryan Switzer, of Virginia, to be a Deputy United States Trade Representative (Asia, Textiles, Investment, Services, and Intellectual Property), with the rank of Ambassador
Executive Calendar No. 149, Callista Gingrich, of Florida, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Swiss Confederation, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Principality of Liechtenstein
Executive Calendar No. 286, Kimberly Guilfoyle, of Florida, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Greece
Executive Calendar No. 302, Christine Toretti, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Kingdom of Sweden
Executive Calendar No. 350, Peter Lamelas, of Florida, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Argentine Republic
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