John Cornyn: “The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Coats), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz)…”

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Coats), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 88, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 169 Ex.] YEAS--88 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Chiesa Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Crapo Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heller Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Lee Levin Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--12 Cantwell Coats Cruz Flake Graham Heitkamp Inhofe King McCain Murkowski Rubio Toomey The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”