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On the recordMay 17, 2018
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain). The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 101 Ex.] YEAS--54 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--45 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Flake Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Paul Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 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. The majority leader. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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