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On the recordOctober 11, 2018
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from North Dakota (Ms. Heitkamp), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 233 Ex.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Kyl Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--16 Booker Brown Cantwell Cortez Masto Gillibrand Harris Hirono Klobuchar Markey Merkley Murray Sanders Smith Stabenow Udall Warren NOT VOTING--5 Feinstein Heinrich Heitkamp Nelson Rubio The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 11, 2018

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