U.S. Senate · 117th Congress, session 1 · Roll call 526
On the Nomination
Confirmation: Rahm Emanuel, of Illinois, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Japan
Nomination Confirmed · 48 Yea, 21 Nay
- Held
- December 18, 2021, 1:30 AM EST
- Vote type
- Final passage
- Party-unity vote
- Yes (most Democrats and most Republicans voted opposite ways)
- Official record
- www.senate.gov
How each party voted
Members are shown in the party they belonged to on the day of the vote, as the official record lists them. In our statistics, independents are counted with the party they caucus with.
| Vote | Republican | Democrat | Independent | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yea | 8 | 39 | 1 | 48 |
| Nay | 18 | 3 | 0 | 21 |
| Not voting | 24 | 6 | 1 | 31 |
| Members | 50 | 48 | 2 | 100 |
How each member voted
Yea (48)
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Roy Blunt (R-MO)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
- Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
- Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD)
- Thomas R. Carper (D-DE)
- Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA)
- Susan M. Collins (R-ME)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
- Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- Bill Hagerty (R-TN)
- Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT)
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
- Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
- Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Gary C. Peters (D-MI)
- Jack Reed (D-RI)
- Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
- Ben Sasse (R-NE)
- Brian Schatz (D-HI)
- Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Tina Smith (D-MN)
- Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
- Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
- Jon Tester (D-MT)
- John Thune (R-SD)
- Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Mark R. Warner (D-VA)
- Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA)
- Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Ron Wyden (D-OR)
- Todd Young (R-IN)
Nay (21)
- John Boozman (R-AR)
- Mike Braun (R-IN)
- Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Tom Cotton (R-AR)
- Mike Crapo (R-ID)
- Ted Cruz (R-TX)
- Josh Hawley (R-MO)
- John Hoeven (R-ND)
- John Kennedy (R-LA)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Mike Lee (R-UT)
- Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
- Roger Marshall (R-KS)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Marco Rubio (R-FL)
- Rick Scott (R-FL)
- Tim Scott (R-SC)
- Thom Tillis (R-NC)
- Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Roger F. Wicker (R-MS)
Not voting (31)
- John Barrasso (R-WY)
- Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- Richard Burr (R-NC)
- Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Steve Daines (R-MT)
- Joni Ernst (R-IA)
- Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
- Deb Fischer (R-NE)
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- James M. Inhofe (R-OK)
- Ron Johnson (R-WI)
- Tim Kaine (D-VA)
- Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY)
- Joe Manchin, III (D-WV)
- Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
- Jerry Moran (R-KS)
- Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
- Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Jon Ossoff (D-GA)
- Rand Paul (R-KY)
- Rob Portman (R-OH)
- James E. Risch (R-ID)
- Mitt Romney (R-UT)
- Mike Rounds (R-SD)
- Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
- Richard C. Shelby (R-AL)
- Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ)
- Patrick J. Toomey (R-PA)