Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Jones), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 301 Ex.] YEAS--68 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Toomey Warner Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--26 Baldwin Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Heinrich Hirono Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warren NOT VOTING--6 Booker Harris Jones Sanders Tillis Whitehouse 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. The Senator from Texas. ____________________”