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On the recordAugust 1, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Markey). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 87, nays 10, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 200 Ex.] YEAS--87 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Chiesa Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--10 Barrasso Cruz Enzi Heller Lee Paul Rubio Scott Shelby Vitter NOT VOTING--3 Inhofe Landrieu McCain The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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