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                       Vote on Holgate Nomination

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Holgate nomination?
  Mr. CARDIN. Madam President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Arizona (Mr. Flake).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. 
Blumenthal), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), and the Senator 
from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hoeven). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 67, nays 29, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 88 Ex.]

                                YEAS--67

     Alexander
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Booker
     Boxer
     Brown
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Cassidy
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coons
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Donnelly
     Durbin
     Ernst
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gardner
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heinrich
     Heitkamp
     Hirono
     Isakson
     Kaine
     King
     Klobuchar
     Leahy
     Manchin
     Markey
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murphy
     Murray
     Nelson
     Paul
     Perdue
     Peters
     Reed
     Reid
     Rounds
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Tillis
     Udall
     Vitter
     Warner
     Warren
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                                NAYS--29

     Ayotte
     Barrasso
     Blunt
     Boozman
     Burr
     Cotton
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Enzi
     Fischer
     Heller
     Hoeven
     Inhofe
     Johnson
     Kirk
     Lankford
     Lee
     Moran
     Portman
     Risch
     Roberts
     Rubio
     Sasse
     Scott
     Sessions
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Toomey

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Blumenthal
     Casey
     Flake
     Sanders
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motions to 
reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table, and the 
President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.

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