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On the recordJune 10, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 58, nays 35, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 181 Ex.] YEAS--58 Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Johnson (SD) King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--35 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Flake Grassley Hatch Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee McCain McConnell Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--7 Cochran Graham Kaine McCaskill Moran Scott Warner The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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