Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 74, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 105 Ex.] YEAS--74 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Booker Boozman Burr Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Scott Shelby Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Wicker Young NAYS--23 Blumenthal Brown Cantwell Casey Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Markey Merkley Murray Reed Sanders Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Duckworth Flake McCain The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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. ____________________”