Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 86, nays 9, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 163 Ex.] YEAS--86 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--9 Booker Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Markey Merkley Sanders Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Brown Burr Corker Kennedy 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. ____________________”