On the recordDecember 30, 2012
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 249 Ex.] YEAS--64 Akaka Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Coons Corker Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heller Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lee Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Paul Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--26 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo Enzi Grassley Hatch Hoeven Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Kyl McCain McConnell Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--10 Alexander Chambliss DeMint Johanns Kerry Kirk Lautenberg Leahy Portman Rubio The nomination was confirmed.
