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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Virginia…

On the recordMarch 14, 2016
I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cassidy). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 36 Ex.] YEAS--49 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Reid Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--40 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Coats Corker Cotton Crapo Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Lankford Lee Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--11 Brown Cruz Flake Kirk McCain Portman Rubio Sanders Sessions Toomey 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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Mar 14, 2016

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