Political Quotes

“I second the motion. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The motion having been made and seconded, the Senate will go into closed session. The Chair, pursuant to rule XXI, now directs the Sergeant at Arms to clear all Galleries, close all doors of the Senate Chamber, and exclude from the Chamber and its immediate corridors all employees and officials of the Senate who, under the rule, are not eligible to attend the closed session and who are not sworn to secrecy. The question is not debatable. Pursuant to rule XXIX, I authorize the Secretary's desk staff and her Deputies and the Assistant Secretaries for the majority and minority to remain in the Chamber during the closed session. The doors will be closed. People who are not authorized to be here will please leave the Chamber. (At 12:55 p.m., the doors of the Chamber were closed.) (At 1:15 p.m., by a vote of 53 to 44, the doors of the Chamber were opened, and the open session of the Senate was resumed.) Vote on Motion to Proceed The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the motion to proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 890, the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The yeas and the nays were previously ordered. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.”