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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator…

On the recordJune 27, 2016
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 90, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 111 Ex.] YEAS--90 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Mikulski Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--10 Blunt Boxer Capito Isakson Johnson Kirk Menendez Murkowski Sanders 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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Jun 27, 2016

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