I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 383 Ex.] YEAS--68 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Murphy Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--21 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cortez Masto Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--11 Booker Harris Isakson Klobuchar Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Rounds Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas. ____________________
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