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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), and the…

On the recordJuly 10, 2014
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 22, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 221 Ex.] YEAS--75 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Crapo Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--22 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Cornyn Cruz Fischer Grassley Heller Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Thune Toomey NOT VOTING--3 Boxer Rockefeller Schatz The nomination was confirmed.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 10, 2014

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