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John Cornyn: The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs.…

On the recordDecember 6, 2018
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote. The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 254 Ex.] YEAS--50 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Kyl Lankford Lee McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Thune Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--49 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Tillis The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Dec 6, 2018

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