{"body":{"post":{"id":"6k3i2n2h5e1n4h073n48","title":"Confirmation Votes by RI Senators","content":"| | Senator Reed | Senator Whitehouse |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ------------------ |\n| Marco Rubio,
Secretary of State | Yea | Yea |\n| John Ratcliffe, Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency | Nay | Yea |\n| Peter Hegseth,
Secretary of Defense | Nay | Nay |\n| Kristi Noem,
Secretary of Homeland Security | Nay | Nay |\n| Scott Bessent,
Secretary of the Treasury | Nay | Nay |\n| Sean Duffy,
Secretary of Transportation | Nay | Yea |\n| Lee Zeldin, Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency | Nay | Nay |\n| Douglas Burgum,
Secretary of the Interior | Nay | Yea |\n| Christopher Wright,
Secretary of Energy | Nay | Nay |\n| Douglas Collins,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Nay | Nay |\n| Pamela Bondi,
Attorney General | Nay | Nay |\n| Eric Turner, Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development | Nay | Nay |\n| Russell Vought, Director of the
Office of Management and Budget | Nay | Nay |\n| Tulsi Gabbard, Director of
National Intelligence | Nay | Nay |\n| Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of
Health and Human Services | Nay | Nay |\n| Brooke Rollins,
Secretary of Agriculture | Nay | Nay |\n| Howard Lutnick,
Secretary of Commerce | Nay | Nay |\n| Kelly Loeffler, Administrator of the
Small Business Administration | Nay | Nay |\n| Kashyap Patel, Director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation | Nay | Nay |\n| Daniel Driscoll, Secretary of the Army | Yea | Nay |\n| Jamieson Greer, U.S. Trade Representative | Nay | Yea |\n| Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education | Nay | Nay |\n| Todd Blanche, Deputy Attorney General | Nay | Nay |\n| Troy Edgar, Deputy Secretary of
Homeland Security | Nay | Nay |\n| Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor | Nay | Yea |\n| Stephen Bradbury, Deputy Secretary of
Transportation | Nay | Nay |\n| Abigail Slater, Assistant Attorney General | Nay | Yea |\n| Stephen Miran, Chairman of the Council of
Economic Advisors | Nay | Nay |\n| Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor | Nay | Nay |\n| William Pulte, Director of the
Federal Housing Finance Agency | Nay | Nay |\n| Jeffrey Kessler, Under Secretary of
Commerce for Industry and Security | Nay | Nay |\n| Stephen Feinberg, Deputy Secretary of Defense | Yea | Nay |\n| John Phelan, Secretary of the Navy | Yea | Nay |\n| Christopher Landau, Deputy Secretary of State | Nay | Nay |\n| Michael Kratsios, Director of the Office of
Science and Technology Policy | Nay | Nay |\n| Jayanta Bhattacharya, Director of the
National Institutes of Health | Nay | Nay |\n| Martin Makary, Commissioner of Food and Drugs,
Department of Health and Human Services | Nay | Nay |\n| James Bishop, Deputy Director of the Office of
Management and Budget | Nay | Nay |\n| Aaron Reitz, Assistant Attorney General | Nay | Nay |\n| Michael Faulkender, Deputy Secretary of the
Treasury | Nay | Nay |\n| Paul Lawrence, Deputy Secretary of
Veterans Affairs | Nay | Nay |\n| Matthew Whitaker, United States Permanent
Representative on the Council of the NATO | Nay | Nay |\n| Dean Sauer, Solicitor General of the United States | Nay | Nay |\n| Mehmet Oz, Administrator for the Centers of
Medicare and Medicaid Services | Nay | Nay |\n| Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General | Nay | Nay |\n| Eldridge Colby, Under Secretary of Defense
for Policy | Yea | Nay |\n| George Glass, Ambassador to Japan | Yea | Nay |\n| Mike Huckabee, Ambassador to Israel | Nay | Nay |\n| Peter Hoekstra, Ambassador to Canada | Nay | Nay |\n| Ronald Johnson, Ambassador to United Mexican
States | Nay | Nay |\n| Kevin Cabrera, Ambassador to the Republic of
Panama | Nay | Nay |\n| Paul Atkins, Member of the Securities and
Exchange Commission | Nay | Nay |\n| Mark Meador, Federal Trade Commissioner | Nay | Nay |\n| Lt. Gen. John D. Caine, Air Force Major General | Yea | Nay |\n| Lt. Gen. John D. Caine, Air Force General and
Joint Chiefs of Staff * | Yea | Nay |\n| David Perdue, Ambassador to the People's
Republic of China | Yea | Not voting ** |\n| Warren Stephens, Ambassador to the UK | Nay | Not voting ** |\n| Thomas Barrack, Ambassador to the Republic
of Turkey | Nay | Not voting ** |\n| Tilman Fertitta, Ambassador to the Italian Republic | Yea | Not voting ** |\n| Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security
Administration | Nay | Nay |\n| Monica Crowley, Chief of Protocol | Nay | Nay |\n| Reed Rubinstein, Legal Advisor of the
Department of State | Nay | Nay |\n| Troy Meink, Secretary of the Air Force | Yea | Nay |\n| James Danly, Deputy Secretary of Energy | Nay | Not voting |\n| Katharine MacGregor, Deputy Secretary of the
Interior | Nay | Nay |\n| Michael Rigas, Deputy Secretary of State for
Management and Resources | Nay | Nay |\n| Emil Michael, Under Secretary of Defense for
Research and Engineering | Nay | Nay |\n| Eric Matthew Ueland, Deputy Director for
Management, Office of Management and Budget | Nay | Nay |\n| Sean Donahue, Assistant Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency | Nay | Nay *** |\n| | | |\n| Votes in compliance with Trump administration | 11/69 (16%) | 7/64 (11%) |\n\n\\* According to [[13.005 Wikipedia|Wikipedia]], [Dan Caine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Caine) is the \"first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to have never served at the rank of four-star general or admiral before being nominated and the first to be nominated in retirement.\n\n\\** Whitehouse was in South Korea for an \"[environmental conference](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tariffs-vote-sheldon-whitehouse-2066581)\" on the day of these votes (April 29, 2025). (I don't know why he missed the Danly vote in the following week.)\n\n\\*** Whitehouse, as the Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, spoke on the Senate floor [in opposition to this nomination](https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases-democratic?ID=3AFC7148-8A3D-4E11-99E4-723DEA567CE5).\n\n---\n**created** 2025.02.19\n**last updated** 2025.05.15\n**source** [Roll Call Vote 119th Congress - 1st Session](https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_119_1.htm) "}}}