Dick Durbin: “I announce that the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from…”

“I announce that the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 326 Ex.] YEAS--62 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Corker Cruz Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--35 Ayotte Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Portman Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Begich Sanders Udall (CO) The nomination was confirmed.”