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John Cornyn: The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Chiesa). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there…

On the recordJuly 30, 2013
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Chiesa). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 69, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 193 Ex.] YEAS--69 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--29 Barrasso Boozman Burr Coats Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee McConnell Moran Paul Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Chiesa Heitkamp The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 69, the nays are 29. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is yielded back and the question occurs on the Pearce nomination.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Jul 30, 2013

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