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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 93, nays 1…

On the recordNovember 16, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 93, nays 1, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 305 Ex.] YEAS--93 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--1 Perdue NOT VOTING--6 Blunt Cotton Cruz Graham Sanders Vitter The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). 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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Nov 16, 2015

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