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On the recordOctober 17, 2017
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Strange). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 218 Ex.] YEAS--79 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--17 Baldwin Booker Brown Cantwell Durbin Franken Gillibrand Harris Hirono Leahy Markey Merkley Sanders Schatz Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Cochran Isakson Menendez Shelby 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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Oct 17, 2017

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