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John Cornyn: The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina…

On the recordNovember 4, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), 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 90, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 228 Ex.] YEAS--90 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Lee Levin Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--10 Blunt Burr Chambliss Coburn McCain McCaskill Moran Murkowski Vitter Warren The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Nov 4, 2013

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