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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Oregon…

On the recordMay 16, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 72 Ex.] YEAS--53 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Rubio Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse NAYS--34 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Gardner Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Lankford Lee McCain Murkowski Paul Perdue Risch Rounds Sasse Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Tillis Wicker NOT VOTING--13 Cotton Cruz Enzi Flake Johnson King Moran Roberts Sanders Sullivan Toomey Vitter Wyden 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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May 16, 2016

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