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Chuck Schumer: I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Durbin). Are…

On the recordMay 2, 2017
I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Durbin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 61, nays 37, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 118 Ex.] YEAS--61 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Carper Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--37 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Casey Coons Cortez Masto Donnelly Duckworth Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Durbin Isakson The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York
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May 2, 2017

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