The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker). Further, if present and voting, 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 90, nays 5, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 41 Ex.] YEAS--90 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Cornyn Cruz Donnelly Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Lee Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--5 Blunt Crapo Risch Roberts Shelby NOT VOTING--5 Corker Durbin Johnson (SD) Nelson Warner The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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