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On the recordApril 7, 2017
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) would have voted ``yea.'' The VICE PRESIDENT. As a reminder, expressions of approval or disapproval are not permitted from the gallery. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or change their vote? The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 111 Ex.] YEAS--54 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Strange Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--45 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Isakson The nomination was confirmed. The VICE PRESIDENT. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote, and I move to table the motion to reconsider. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the motion.…
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John Cornyn
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