Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Donnelly) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lee). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 87, nays 8, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 204 Ex.] YEAS--87 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--8 Gillibrand Harris Hirono Markey Merkley Sanders Schatz Warren NOT VOTING--5 Cochran Donnelly Menendez Strange Young The nomination was confirmed.”