119th Congress · PN55-41 · Department of Defense
Katherine Sutton
Where this nomination stands
Confirmed 51–47 (roll call vote 526) · September 18, 2025
- ReceivedMarch 24, 2025
- Sent to committeeMarch 24, 2025
- HearingMay 6, 2025
- Committee voteMay 13, 2025
- On the Senate calendarMay 13, 2025
- Senate voteSeptember 18, 2025
- ConfirmedSeptember 18, 2025
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Description on the record: Katherine Sutton, of Illinois, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Michael Louis Sulmeyer, resigned.
Source: Congress.gov PN55-41, record updated September 19, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Record
- Congress.gov nomination PN55-41 ↗
- Machine-readable record
https://api.congress.gov/v3/nomination/119/55-41?format=json- Status wording
- PORKER shows the status from Congress.gov’s latest-action text: “Confirmed by the Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 47. Record Vote Number: 526.” (September 18, 2025)
- Last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2025
- Retrieved by PORKER
- October 16, 2026
- Raw copy kept
- nominations-119-2026-10-16-06a5bfe9.jsonl.gz
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Senate votes
Roll calls recorded on this nomination. Both parties are shown the same way, and nothing here is a score.
Confirmation vote · September 18, 2025
Yea 51Nay 47Not voting 2
| Party | Yea | Nay | Not voting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | 0 | 45 | 0 |
| Independent | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Republican | 51 | 0 | 2 |
How each senator voted (100)
Yea (51)
Nay (47)
Not Voting (2)
Source: Senate roll call vote 526, September 18, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Question
- On the Nomination PN55-25 and PN55-45 and PN54-7 and PN54-6 and PN55-42 and PN345-16 and PN150-5 and PN141-18 and PN25-33 and PN22-24 and PN13-5 and PN26-22 and PN22-3 and PN25-21 and PN12-22 and PN141-28 and PN141-7 and PN141-37 and PN26-45 and PN129-8 and PN60-10 and PN60-9 and PN55-16 and PN25-2 and PN26-44 and PN60-3 and PN26-31 and PN26-19 and PN26-7 and PN25-40 and PN22-23 and PN26-1 and PN22-19 and PN22-8 and PN22-4 and PN55-41 and PN26-35 and PN26-34 and PN26-8 and PN22-21 and PN22-20 and PN22-27 and PN22-5 and PN22-2 and PN22-1 and PN12-45 and PN12-19 and PN25-28
- Vote record
- senate.gov roll call vote 526, 119th Congress, session 1 ↗
- PORKER vote id
vote_Senate_119_1_526- Why this vote is linked here
- The Senate vote record names this nomination number, or Congress.gov lists this roll call number in the nomination’s action line.
Committee steps
- Referred To March 24, 2025: Armed Services Committee
- Hearings By (full committee) May 6, 2025: Armed Services Committee
- Markup By May 13, 2025: Armed Services Committee
- Reported By May 13, 2025: Armed Services Committee
Every recorded action
- Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
- Committee on Armed Services. Hearings held.
- Placed on Senate Executive Calendar. Calendar No. 139. Subject to nominee's commitment to respond to requests to appear and testify before any duly constituted committee of the Senate.
- Reported by Senator Wicker, Committee on Armed Services, without printed report.
- Committee on Armed Services. Ordered to be reported favorably.
- Cloture motion presented in Senate.
- Motion to proceed to executive session to consideration of nomination pursuant to S. Res. 377, 119th Congress agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
- By unanimous consent agreement, debate pursuant to S. Res. 377, 119th Congress on 9/18/2025.
- Considered by Senate pursuant S. Res. 377, 119th Congress.
- Upon reconsideration, cloture invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 47. Record Vote Number: 525.
- Motion by Senator Thune to appeal the ruling of the chair agreed to, the question being, "Shall the decision of the Chair stand as the judgment of the Senate" determined by Yea-Nay Vote. 47 - 52. Record Vote Number: 524.
- Ruling of the Chair that the precedents set on November 21, 2013 and September 11, 2025 do not apply to the consideration of en bloc nominations; the point of order raised by Senator Thune was not sustained.
- Point of order made by Senator Thune that consistent with the precedents of the Senate established on November 21, 2013, and September 11, 2025, the threshold for cloture on the en bloc consideration of nominations pursuant to an Executive resolution with a calendar number on the Executive Calendar, other than those on Level 1 of the Executive Schedule under 5 U.S.C. 5312, or Article 3 judges, is a simple majority raised in Senate.
- Motion by Senator Thune to reconsider the vote (Record Vote No. 522), by which cloture was not invoked on the nominations en bloc agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 47. Record Vote Number: 523.
- Cloture not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 48. Record Vote Number: 522.
- By unanimous consent agreement, mandatory quorum required under Rule XXII waived.
- Confirmed by the Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 47. Record Vote Number: 526.
- Considered by Senate pursuant S. Res. 377, 119th Congress.
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