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John Cornyn: The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any…

On the recordApril 9, 2013
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 93 Ex.] YEAS--64 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cowan Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--34 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Flake Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Lautenberg Rubio The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Apr 9, 2013

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