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

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``yea'' and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott) would have voted ``yea.'' The result was announced--yeas 90, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 128 Ex.] YEAS--90 Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Crapo Cruz Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heller Hirono Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Lee Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--10 Alexander Heitkamp Hoeven Landrieu Lautenberg Paul Pryor Scott Vitter Wicker The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”