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On the recordFebruary 14, 2017
I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 65 Ex.] YEAS--81 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--19 Baldwin Booker Brown Durbin Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Markey Merkley Murray Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Flake). Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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