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On the recordJune 6, 2017
I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant bill clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 33, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 139 Ex.] YEAS--67 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Harris Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Strange Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--33 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Coons Durbin Franken Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Heller Hirono Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Paul Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden 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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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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