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On the recordOctober 5, 2017
I announce that the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 65, nays 32, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 213 Ex.] YEAS--65 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Wicker Young NAYS--32 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Casey Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Stabenow Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Cochran Cortez Masto Heller 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. The Senator from Idaho.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 5, 2017

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