Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 217 Ex.] YEAS--70 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Grassley Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Johnson Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Perdue Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott Shaheen Shelby Strange Sullivan Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--23 Blumenthal Booker Brown Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Harris Hassan Heinrich Hirono Leahy Markey Merkley Nelson Peters Sanders Schatz Stabenow Tester Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--7 Cochran Graham Isakson McCain Menendez Moran Portman The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wyoming.”