Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 69, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 117 Ex.] YEAS--69 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--30 Barrasso Blackburn Braun Burr Cassidy Cornyn Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Paul Rubio Sasse Shelby Sullivan Toomey Tuberville Young NOT VOTING--1 Sanders The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Smith). 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. ____________________”