Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Rubio). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 31, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 182 Ex.] YEAS--66 Alexander Barrasso Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Capito Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kennedy Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murphy Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Stabenow Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Wicker Young NAYS--31 Baldwin Bennet Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono Kaine King Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Udall Van Hollen Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Burr Franken McCain The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority whip.”