- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Executive business
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: June 17, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Steel nomination?
Mr. CORNYN. 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 Kentucky (Mr. McConnell).
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) are necessarily absent.
The result was announced—yeas 55, nays 39, as follows:
Rollcall Vote No. 177 Ex.
YEAS—55
Armstrong
Banks
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
Kaine
Kennedy
King
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
McCormick
Moody
Moran
Moreno
Murkowski
Paul
Ricketts
Risch
Rounds
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shaheen
Sheehy
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Tuberville
Wicker
Young
NAYS—39
Alsobrooks
Baldwin
Blumenthal
Blunt Rochester
Cantwell
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Kelly
Kim
Klobuchar
Lujan
Markey
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Sanders
Schatz
Schiff
Schumer
Slotkin
Smith
Van Hollen
Warner
Warren
Welch
Whitehouse
Wyden
NOT VOTING—6
Bennet
Booker
Gallego
Gillibrand
McConnell
Warnock
The nomination was confirmed.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). 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 actions.