Senate Confirms Anti-Israel Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel

The final vote: 58-41.

The Republican Senators who voted for cloture, thus assuring that his nomination would head to the floor for a full Senate vote where the Democrats were certain to give him the nod, are named here:

Alexander
Ayotte
Blunt
Burr
Chambliss
Coburn
Collins
Corker
Flake
Graham
Hatch
McCain
Murkowski
Sessions
Thune

The Republican Senators who actually voted in favor of Chuck Hagel when the full Senate took the vote: Cochran, Johanns, Shelby, and Rand Paul. Tweet