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John Cornyn: The following Senator is necessarily absent: The Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr.…

On the recordMarch 1, 2017
The following Senator is necessarily absent: The Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 75 Ex.] YEAS--68 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Capito Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--31 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harris Hassan Hirono Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--1 Isakson The nomination was confirmed. Mr. McCONNELL. 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
Republican · Texas
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Mar 1, 2017

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