I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cramer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 73, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 348 Ex.] YEAS--73 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Capito Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--17 Blumenthal Cantwell Cardin Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Reed Schatz Schumer Stabenow Udall NOT VOTING--10 Bennet Booker Burr Cassidy Harris Isakson Kennedy Klobuchar Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
On the recordNovember 6, 2019
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