I announce that the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) and the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 86, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 320 Ex.] YEAS--86 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cruz Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Lee Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--12 Blunt Burr Chambliss Coburn Crapo Heller McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Toomey NOT VOTING--2 Harkin Landrieu The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
Dick Durbin: “I announce that the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) and the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) are necessarily absent.…”
On the recordDecember 9, 2014
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