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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are…

On the recordOctober 5, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 69, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 274 Ex.] YEAS--69 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Casey Coats Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Daines Donnelly Durbin Ernst Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--21 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Cassidy Cochran Cotton Crapo Fischer Gardner Hoeven Inhofe Lankford McConnell Moran Risch Roberts Sasse Sessions Shelby Sullivan Wicker NOT VOTING--10 Burr Carper Cruz Enzi McCain Rounds Rubio Scott Toomey Vitter 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. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 5, 2015

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