I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 88 Ex.] YEAS--67 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Ernst Feinstein Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Reed Reid Rounds Schatz Schumer Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Tillis Udall Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--29 Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Fischer Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kirk Lankford Lee Moran Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sasse Scott Sessions Sullivan Thune Toomey NOT VOTING--4 Blumenthal Casey Flake Sanders The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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