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On the recordMarch 4, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Coats), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 91, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 28 Ex.] YEAS--91 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Crapo Cruz 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 Lee Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--9 Begich Brown Coats Lautenberg Murkowski Paul Rockefeller Udall (CO) Vitter The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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John Cornyn
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