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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily…

On the recordMay 13, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 84, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 177 Ex.] YEAS--84 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--12 Blunt Boozman Cotton Crapo Inhofe Lankford Moran Risch Sessions Shelby Sullivan Vitter NOT VOTING--4 Casey Rubio Sanders Toomey 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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May 13, 2015

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