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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator…

On the recordJune 22, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 1, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 217 Ex.] YEAS--81 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Merkley Mikulski Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tillis Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--1 Sasse NOT VOTING--18 Blunt Coats Corker Crapo Cruz Franken Graham Hoeven Kirk Lee Menendez Murkowski Rounds Rubio Scott Tester Thune Toomey The nomination was confirmed.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 22, 2015

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