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On the recordFebruary 25, 2013
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Donnelly). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 93, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 22 Ex.] YEAS--93 Alexander Ayotte Baldwin Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Boxer Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cowan Cruz Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Landrieu Leahy Lee Levin Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schatz Schumer Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Chambliss Crapo Harkin Johnson (WI) Lautenberg Paul Udall (CO) 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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