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On the recordAugust 3, 2017
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 186 Ex.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--17 Booker Cortez Masto Duckworth Franken Gillibrand Harris Heller Hirono Markey Menendez Merkley Reed Sanders Schatz Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--4 Burr Hoeven Inhofe McCain 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
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