Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Johnson). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 69, nays 26, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 197 Ex.] YEAS--69 Alexander Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Burr Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Cotton Crapo Daines Donnelly Enzi Ernst Fischer Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy Klobuchar Lankford Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Moran Murphy Nelson Perdue Peters Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Scott Shaheen Shelby Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Wicker Young NAYS--26 Baldwin Booker Brown Cantwell Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Heinrich Hirono King Markey Menendez Merkley Murray Paul Sanders Schatz Schumer Stabenow Udall Warren Whitehouse 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. The Senator from South Dakota.”