[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12111]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            VOTE EXPLANATION

 Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I was necessarily absent from this 
afternoon's vote on confirmation of the nomination of Peter Michael 
McKinley to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 
United States of America to the Federative Republic of Brazil.
  On vote No. 137, had I been present, I would have voted yea on the 
McKinley nomination. I hope the Senate will continue to confirm 
President Obama's highly qualified nominees in the weeks ahead.

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