Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 65, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 142 Ex.] YEAS--65 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Burr Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--30 Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Klobuchar Menendez Merkley Murray Peters Reed Rosen Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Leahy Markey Sanders Sasse Tillis The nomination was confirmed The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). The Senator from Alabama.”