WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed John Brennan to head the Central Intelligence Agency on Thursday after two Republican senators blasted Sen. Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster, which temporarily held up the vote on President Barack Obama’s choice to head the spy agency.

Senators confirmed Brennan on a 63-34 vote. Thirteen Republicans – including Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida – voted for Brennan. Two Democrats – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Jeff Merkley of Oregon – joined Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with the Democrats, in opposing him.

Before the vote, Graham and McCain lambasted Paul, a Kentucky Republican, for launching a filibuster on the nomination over the question of whether the president could employ drones to kill Americans on U.S. soil.