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On the recordDecember 18, 2017
I announce that the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin) and the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 318 Ex.] YEAS--62 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Carper Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons 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 McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--34 Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Baldwin Capito Duckworth McCain The nomination was confirmed.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 18, 2017

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