Looks like that will be the total. I'm guessing Cramer is out of town and will miss this vote as well.
Including today's two cloture votes, Capito and McConnell have still backed all but one Biden nominee that has come to the floor.
Assuming Schumer and Sinema make it back to the floor to vote on this, Garland will have 70 aye votes. Fudge had 69 earlier this evening. Both will be up for confirmation votes tomorrow afternoon. Reagan for EPA will have a cloture vote tomorrow as well.
As I hit send Sinema comes back to vote. Now just waiting on Schumer.
And there is Schumer. Vote is 70-29
Tomorrow:
Confirmation:
-Fudge 12:00
-Garland 2:15
-Reagan
Cloture:
-Reagan
The House is taking up the COVID bill at 9AM tomorrow. Unclear when votes will occur on that or if Fudge will be present. You can be sure though: if her vote is needed, she will be there.
*I have been misspelling Michael REGAN repeatedly today.
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There is at least one other Titanic survivor that I am aware of having been elected to a State Legislature after the sinking: Robert Williams Daniel, a Conservative Democrat, was elected in 1935 to the Virginia Senate where he would serve until his death in 1940.
That Titanic survivor went on to be elected to one term in the Minnesota State House in 1926. He would then lose reelection 2 years later by 102 votes. The district was based in Minneapolis, but I have not further specifics on that.
Many years after his death, his wife gave this 1980 interview:
Of course, don't take everything she said as gospel, though based on one detail she gives here: her husband was in the inside bunk and she was against the hull, so the iceberg would have passed just inches away from the bed in which she was lying.
As of this moment, Bernie Sanders and Mitch McConnell have voted aye on the exact same number of confirmation votes (11/12) thus far in 2021. They opposed different nominees however: McConnell opposed Mayorkas (confirmed 56-43) and Sanders opposed Vilsack (confirmed 92-7).
Burr & Capito are the other two who have only opposed one nominee on a confirmation floor vote, though Capito also missed a vote and Burr missed 2 votes.
You then have Cornyn, Fischer, Young & Blunt (though Blunt missed a vote as well) who have only voted against the confirmation of 2 nominees.