Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cruz). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 155 Ex.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Lankford Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Toomey Udall Van Hollen Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--16 Blumenthal Cortez Masto Ernst Gillibrand Grassley Harris Hirono Klobuchar Markey Menendez Merkley Rosen Schatz Schumer Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Cardin Leahy Sanders Tillis Warner 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 actions. The Senator from Kansas. ____________________”