Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 15, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 31 Ex.] YEAS--83 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--15 Booker Duckworth Gillibrand Harris Hirono Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Warren Whitehouse NOT VOTING--2 Scott (FL) Sinema The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is made and laid upon the table. The President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________”