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On the recordMay 9, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Donnelly) and the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 87 Ex.] YEAS--62 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--34 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Donnelly Duckworth Graham McCain 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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May 9, 2018

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