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Official title: Vote on Cekada Nomination (Executive Session)
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April 29, 2026
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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextThe PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Cekada nomination?
Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. 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 senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville).
The result was announced—yeas 59, nays 39, as follows:
Rollcall Vote No. 109 Ex.
YEAS—59
Armstrong
Banks
Barrasso
Blackburn
Boozman
Britt
Budd
Capito
Cassidy
Collins
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Curtis
Daines
Ernst
Fetterman
Fischer
Graham
Grassley
Hagerty
Hassan
Hawley
Hoeven
Husted
Hyde-Smith
Johnson
Justice
Kaine
Kennedy
King
Klobuchar
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
McConnell
McCormick
Moody
Moran
Moreno
Murkowski
Paul
Ricketts
Risch
Rounds
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Sheehy
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Whitehouse
Wicker
Young
NAYS—39
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Gallego
Gillibrand
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Kelly
Kim
Lujan
Markey
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Sanders
Schatz
Schiff
Schumer
Slotkin
Smith
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Welch
Wyden
NOT VOTING—2
Alsobrooks
Tuberville
The nomination was confirmed.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Moody). 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.
The Senator from Kentucky.