I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), 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 80, nays 13, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 277 Ex.] YEAS--80 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--13 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cortez Masto Gillibrand Hirono Markey Murray Schatz Schumer Stabenow Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Booker Coons Harris Klobuchar Roberts Sanders Warren The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
On the recordSeptember 11, 2019
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