I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Young). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 8, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 12 Ex.] YEAS--81 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Jones Kaine King Lankford Leahy Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Merkley Moran Murkowski Murray Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--8 Brown Gillibrand Harris Menendez Schumer Stabenow Udall Van Hollen NOT VOTING--11 Booker Cassidy Cramer Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Klobuchar Markey Murphy Sanders Warren 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 actions.…
On the recordJanuary 14, 2020
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