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On the recordMay 17, 2011
I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 71, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 71 Ex.] YEAS--71 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Hutchison Inouye Johnson (SD) Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (NE) Nelson (FL) Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Schumer Shaheen Snowe Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--28 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Crapo DeMint Enzi Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--1 Sanders The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is 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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May 17, 2011

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