Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 84, nays 5, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 282 Ex.] YEAS--84 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Daines Durbin Ernst Feinstein Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Portman Reed Roberts Romney Rosen Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--5 Blumenthal Duckworth Markey Sanders Warren NOT VOTING--11 Alexander Burr Cruz Enzi Fischer Harris Loeffler Paul Perdue Risch Rounds The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader is recognized. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum call be waived. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________”