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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from…

On the recordFebruary 24, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 4, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 25 Ex.] YEAS--89 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee McCain McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Vitter Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--4 Ayotte Blumenthal Manchin Markey NOT VOTING--7 Corker Cruz Johnson McCaskill Rubio Sanders Warner 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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Feb 24, 2016

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