Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Young). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 42, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 200 Ex.] YEAS--52 Alexander Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Klobuchar Lankford Lee McCaskill McConnell Moran Perdue Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shelby Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Wicker Young NAYS--42 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Jones Kaine King Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Nelson Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Cruz Flake Leahy Murkowski Paul 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. ____________________”