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On the recordFebruary 27, 2017
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Daines). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 27, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 73 Ex.] YEAS--72 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott Shaheen Shelby Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--27 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Cardin Durbin Franken Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Reed Sanders Schumer Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Isakson The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Colleagues, let me just say, this next vote will be the last vote of the evening. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote on the nomination, and I move to table the motion to reconsider. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to table. The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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