Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. (Mr. Cassidy). Are there any other Senators in the chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 80, nays 17, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 196 Ex.] YEAS--80 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Wicker Young NAYS--17 Blumenthal Booker Brown Duckworth Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Markey Merkley Sanders Schatz Schumer Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Menendez Nelson Rubio The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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. ____________________”