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On the recordApril 9, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) would have voted ``nay.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 104 Ex.] YEAS--75 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Begich Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Coons Corker Crapo Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--21 Barrasso Boozman Chambliss Cochran Enzi Fischer Grassley Hatch Inhofe Johnson (WI) Lee McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--4 Bennet Coburn Cornyn Cruz The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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John Thune
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