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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from…

On the recordNovember 9, 2015
I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Isakson). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 300 Ex.] YEAS--83 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin Markey McCain McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--17 Blunt Cassidy Cochran Cruz Flake Gardner Heller Klobuchar McCaskill Mikulski Murkowski Paul Rubio Sanders Stabenow Vitter Wicker 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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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Nov 9, 2015

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