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John Cornyn: The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr.…

On the recordMarch 15, 2017
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) would have voted ``yea,'' the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso) would have voted ``yea,'' and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker) would have voted ``yea.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 86, nays 10, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 90 Ex.] YEAS--86 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--10 Booker Gillibrand Harris Hirono Markey McCaskill Merkley Sanders Schumer Warren NOT VOTING--4 Alexander Barrasso Corker Isakson The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Colorado.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Mar 15, 2017

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