I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cruz). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 77, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 94 Ex.] YEAS--77 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Wicker Young NAYS--21 Baldwin Booker Brown Cantwell Casey Cortez Masto Gillibrand Harris Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Sanders Smith Stabenow Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Duckworth McCain 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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