On the recordMay 17, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 74, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 103 Ex.] YEAS--74 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Crapo Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hoeven Hutchison Johanns Johnson (SD) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Schumer Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--21 Ayotte Chambliss Coburn Cornyn Graham Hatch Heller Inhofe Isakson Johnson (WI) Lee Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Sessions Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--5 DeMint Inouye Kirk McCaskill Mikulski The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 60-vote threshold having been achieved, the nomination is confirmed. The majority leader. ____________________
