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On the recordDecember 3, 2014
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 67, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 305 Ex.] YEAS--67 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Collins Coons Donnelly Durbin Feinstein Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Hagan Harkin Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Isakson Johnson (SD) Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Levin Manchin Markey McCain McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Tester Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Walsh Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--28 Barrasso Boozman Burr Chambliss Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Enzi Fischer Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johanns Johnson (WI) Kirk Lee McConnell Moran Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Thune Wicker NOT VOTING--5 Coburn Cochran Landrieu Rockefeller Stabenow The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 67, the nays are 28. The motion is agreed to. Vote Explanation <bullet> Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I was unable to attend today's cloture vote on the nomination of Gerald Pappert to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Had I been present, I would have supported this cloture motion.<bullet> ____________________
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