Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 217 Ex.] YEAS--54 Alexander Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Cassidy Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kennedy Lankford Lee McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sinema Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--40 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Booker Cortez Masto Harris Isakson Sanders Stabenow 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 actions. ____________________”