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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Gardner). Are…

On the recordJanuary 19, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Gardner). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 58, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 3 Ex.] YEAS--58 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Ernst Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--36 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Cassidy Cochran Cotton Crapo Daines Enzi Fischer Gardner Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee McCain Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Sessions Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Cornyn Cruz Graham Rubio Sanders Scott 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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Jan 19, 2016

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