Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 72, nays 23, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 198 Ex.] YEAS--72 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blunt Boozman Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murphy Murray Nelson Paul Perdue Peters Portman Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--23 Blumenthal Booker Brown Carper Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Markey Menendez Merkley Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Stabenow Udall Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--4 Cruz Flake Leahy Murkowski 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. ____________________”