Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 75, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 213 Ex.] YEAS--75 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Kyl Lankford Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--19 Booker Cardin Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Heller Leahy Markey Reed Sanders Schatz Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--6 Corker Flake Johnson Merkley Paul Sasse The nominations were confirmed en bloc. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table en bloc and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________”