Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 111 Ex.] YEAS--48 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee McConnell Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--43 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--9 Cruz Duckworth Flake Hassan Heller McCain Moran Rubio Sanders 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. The Senator from Oklahoma. ____________________”