Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. FISCHER). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 69, nays 24, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 109 Ex.] YEAS--69 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Wicker Young NAYS--24 Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Markey Merkley Murray Sanders Schatz Schumer Smith Stabenow Udall Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Cruz Duckworth Flake Hassan Heller McCain 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. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Jelena McWilliams to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?…”