I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cruz). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 264 Ex.] YEAS--56 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--38 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Alexander Harris Roberts Sanders Sinema Warren 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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