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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). Are…

On the recordOctober 22, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 93, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 283 Ex.] YEAS--93 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Flake Graham Kaine Moran Rubio Thune Vitter The nomination was confirmed.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 22, 2015

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