Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 77, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 133 Ex.] YEAS--77 Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Murkowski Murphy Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--16 Baldwin Booker Duckworth Feinstein Heinrich Hirono Klobuchar Markey Merkley Murray Reed Schatz Smith Udall Van Hollen Whitehouse NOT VOTING--7 Alexander Blumenthal Gillibrand Harris Moran Sanders Warren 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. ____________________”