On the recordFebruary 28, 2011
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Manchin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 90, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 26 Ex.] YEAS--90 Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Durbin Ensign Enzi Feinstein Franken Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Lee Levin Lugar Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--10 Akaka Ayotte Boozman Gillibrand Inhofe Lieberman McCain Paul Rockefeller Toomey The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motions to reconsider are laid on the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
