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On the recordJune 6, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 117 Ex.] YEAS--83 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--11 Booker Gillibrand Harris Hirono Menendez Merkley Peters Sanders Stabenow Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Coons Duckworth Heinrich Leahy Markey McCain The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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. The majority leader. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 6, 2018

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