Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from North Dakota (Ms. Heitkamp), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kennedy). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 231 Ex.] YEAS--50 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Kyl Lankford Lee McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Shelby Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--45 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Harris Hassan Hirono Jones Kaine King Klobuchar Leahy Manchin Markey McCaskill Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Feinstein Heinrich Heitkamp Nelson Rubio The nomination was confirmed The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the votes in this series be 10 minutes in length. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Mr. McCONNELL. I yield back all time. The PRESIDING OFFICER.…”