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On the recordDecember 11, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 77, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 268 Ex.] YEAS--77 Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cruz Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Lee Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--19 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Cornyn Crapo Enzi Fischer Hoeven Johanns McCain McConnell Paul Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Vitter NOT VOTING--4 Graham Inhofe Kirk Menendez The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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