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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford).…

On the recordJune 15, 2015
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 208 Ex.] YEAS--62 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Donnelly Durbin Ernst Feinstein Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Portman Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Tillis Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--24 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Capito Daines Enzi Fischer Heller Hoeven Isakson Lankford McConnell Moran Paul Perdue Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Sullivan Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--14 Boxer Burr Cochran Crapo Cruz Graham Inhofe Lee McCain Murkowski Rubio Sessions Shelby Vitter The nomination was confirmed.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 15, 2015

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