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On the recordJuly 16, 2018
I announce that the Senator from New York (Ms. Gillibrand), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Jones), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 85, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 155 Ex.] YEAS--85 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Grassley Harris Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--15 Boozman Gillibrand Graham Heller Inhofe Isakson Jones Kennedy Leahy McCain Moran Peters Shaheen Shelby Stabenow 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. The Senator from Idaho. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jul 16, 2018

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