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On the recordSeptember 17, 2013
I announce that the Senator from Montana (Mr. Baucus) is necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from Montana (Mr. Baucus) would vote ``aye.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Heitkamp). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 202 Ex.] YEAS--64 Alexander Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Chiesa Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--35 Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Baucus The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid on the table, and the President will immediately be notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 17, 2013

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