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John Cornyn: The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Tennessee…

On the recordMarch 15, 2017
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cotton). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 85, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 89 Ex.] YEAS--85 Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--12 Baldwin Booker Duckworth Gillibrand Harris Markey Merkley Paul Sanders Udall Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Alexander Corker Isakson The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona. Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote, and I move to table the motion to reconsider.…
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Mar 15, 2017

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