Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Jones) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Johnson). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 73, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 38 Ex.] YEAS--73 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Nelson Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS-- 23 Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cortez Masto Duckworth Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Stabenow Udall Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Jones McCain Rounds Sullivan 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. ____________________”