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On the recordNovember 20, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 290 Ex.] YEAS--49 Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--46 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Tester Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Chambliss Cruz Hagan Landrieu Vitter The nomination was confirmed.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

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