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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 64, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 189 Ex.] YEAS--64 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Corker Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--34 Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Chiesa Heitkamp The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 64, the nays are 34. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked, pursuant to S. Res. 15 of the 113th Congress, there will now be up to 8 hours of postcloture consideration of the nomination equally divided in the usual form. The Senator from Iowa.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas
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Jul 30, 2013

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