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On the recordMay 14, 2018
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 91, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 93 Ex.] YEAS--91 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Gillibrand Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--9 Blunt Cruz Duckworth Graham Heller Lankford Lee Manchin 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 14, 2018

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