Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) are necessarily absent. The VICE PRESIDENT. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote or to change their vote? The result was announced--yeas 98, nays 0, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 115 Ex.] YEAS--98 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Braun Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Gillibrand Graham Grassley Harris Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Leahy Lee Loeffler Manchin McConnell McSally Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Shelby Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--2 Cardin Markey The VICE PRESIDENT. On this vote the yeas are 98, the nays are 0, and the historic nomination of Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr., as the U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff is confirmed The VICE PRESIDENT. 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. ____________________”