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

On the recordNovember 30, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 7, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 310 Ex.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Reed Reid Roberts Rounds Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--7 Blunt Crapo Heller Lee Paul Risch Sasse NOT VOTING--14 Ayotte Burr Cruz Flake Graham Johnson Kirk McCain Portman Rubio Sanders Shelby Tillis Vitter 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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Nov 30, 2015

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