Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 251 Ex.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Durbin Enzi Ernst Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Strange Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Warner Wicker Young NAYS--16 Blumenthal Cortez Masto Duckworth Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hirono Markey Merkley Murphy Sanders Schatz Stabenow Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Booker Graham Heinrich Menendez Whitehouse 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. ____________________”