Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 154 Ex.] YEAS--70 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Manchin McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Perdue Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Smith Tester Thune Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--23 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hirono Leahy Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Peters Sanders Schatz Stabenow Sullivan Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Hyde-Smith McCain Moran Paul Schumer Shaheen Tillis The nomination was confirmed. ____________________”