The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 138 Ex.] YEAS--70 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Collins Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--24 Barrasso Cochran Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Lee McConnell Moran Paul Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Toomey Wicker NOT VOTING--6 Begich Boozman Coburn Coons Landrieu Pryor The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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