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On the recordJune 4, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), and the Senator fron Kansas (Mr. Roberts). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 92, nays 2, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 171 Ex.] YEAS--92 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Chambliss Coats Coburn Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--2 Cruz Paul NOT VOTING--6 Booker Boozman Casey Cochran Lee Roberts The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motions to reconsider will be considered made and laid on the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions.…
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