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On the recordMay 15, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 77, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 154 Ex.] YEAS--77 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Levin Markey McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--19 Barrasso Burr Coburn Crapo Cruz Enzi Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Lee Moran Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Shelby Thune Vitter NOT VOTING--4 Boozman Isakson Manchin Rockefeller The nomination was confirmed. ____________________
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