Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 151 Ex.] YEAS--53 Alexander Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Daines Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--42 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cotton Cramer Crapo Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Loeffler McConnell McSally Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NOT VOTING--5 Blunt Burr Cruz Manchin Moran 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 PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Ohio.”