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On the recordApril 10, 2013
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 87, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 94 Ex.] YEAS--87 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Crapo Cruz Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--11 Barrasso Chambliss Coburn Enzi Fischer Johanns Lee McConnell Rubio Scott Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Lautenberg Rockefeller 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
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