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On the recordJuly 10, 2017
I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 156 Ex.] YEAS--54 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Strange Thune Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--41 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Murkowski Portman Sullivan Tillis Udall The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wyoming.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 10, 2017

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