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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from New…

On the recordFebruary 8, 2016
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 18 Ex.] YEAS--83 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Udall Warner Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--17 Blunt Boxer Cotton Cruz Graham Heller Johnson McCain Rubio Sanders Sasse Shaheen Tillis Toomey Vitter Whitehouse Wicker The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Feb 8, 2016

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