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John Cornyn: The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Georgia…

On the recordMay 11, 2017
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 82, nays 14, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 127 Ex.] YEAS--82 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--14 Blumenthal Gardner Gillibrand Harris Markey McCain Merkley Reed Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--4 Capito Isakson Murkowski Sullivan The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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John Cornyn
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May 11, 2017

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